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O wners , D evelopers & M anagers By Doug Haines, Haines Security Solutions Understanding your building design basis threat A couple weeks ago, I was teaching a class about using building design
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will. DBT is identifying your threats, their tactics, the tools they may use and then design- ing your building to deter or prevent them from happening, in the first place, and under- standing that if they do happen you can reduce their effects if you’ve included reduction strat- egies into the design. The very first thing to do is to assemble “the planning team”. The idea that “it takes a vil- lage” needs to be used here. The team should include architects, engineers, facility manager, security, end users and others. It’s important to bring these folks together, so that they can discuss the parameters of what they are trying to accomplish and “buy in” to the project. If done correctly at the beginning of a project, security costs can be kept to a minimum, usually somewhere around five percent of the total project costs. If security comes in at the end of the project this cost may sky- rocket to thirty-forty percent, because of the long term cost of equipment maintenance and personnel costs. Once the team is assembled, the first step is to identify the threat or threats. Threats can be divided into two categories;
natural and man-made. For- tunately, laws and ordinances exist that address natural threats in building design; i.e., earthquake, flooding, fire, tor- nado, etc. Man-made threats on the other hand – not so much. Although, that is chang- ing slowly. Last year, federal legislation was signed into law that addresses the use of hos- tile vehicles in public spaces. We’re still waiting for the DHS report the law requires and its subsequent findings and recom- mendations. I’m particularly concerned that our government hasn’t the courage to attack hostile shooter legislation, when it is so needed. The second step is to identify the motives of the man-made threat; causing injury or death, theft or unlawful removal of property or equipment, dam- age to property or facilities and adverse. Then we need to figure out what type of groups commit these acts; criminals (sophisti- cated/non-sophisticated, orga- nized/unorganized), protesters (organized/non-organized), ter- rorist (domestic/trans-national/ state-sponsored) and subver- sives. Then we look at the tactics continued on page 3B
to deter crim- inal activity, including ter- rorist attack, and when it fails reduce i t s e f f e c t s and prevent mass casual- ties. After the
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obligatory introductions, I said something to the effect, that building design is a matter of reducing risk whenever and wherever possible and under- standing your “DBT”. Based on the blank stares, I got back, I knew something was wrong. So, I said it again. Still the deer in the headlights looks. So, I said, “Everyone knows what DBT stands for, right”? Still nothing. Not one person raised their hand. I was taken aback. After all the class was made up of seasoned architects, engineers, planners and security folks. I would have thought, at least, one or two would have known what I was talking about. So, we spent the new few minutes talking about Design Basis Threat or DBT, if you
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