External Building Security

Running Head: Risk Assessment Methodology

Risk Assessment Methodology

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External building security is a vital component in the building design process so as to erect a building that offers conducive, intellectual, social, creative, as well as physical activities of its occupants. There are many key external building security principles with ability to endure different attack types. The following paper lists, explains and evaluates these principles.

Security is one of the building design process essential part and should be thought as an issue that gives clear guidance concerning the design, methods as well as materials of building that improve acceptable, effective, and inexpensive security to every building stakeholder. Building Planning must be conducive to all social, intellectual, physical, and creative activities of the stakeholders. Structures should be safe enough to give lively and welcoming operational setting that does not impersonate, over-power, or institute personal risks while at the same time accommodating a ray of activities.

External building security, from the preliminary phase to final building construction, centers on the built environment, threatened externally and internally by vandalism that comprises graffiti as well as glass breakage, theft, burglary and arson. It deals with actions taken to secure property, buildings, as well as assets against burglars. Cooper and DeGrazio (1995) assert that building security is not the installation of the most recent software package and electronic gear neither is it a consideration of types of buildings that have high particular occupancy considerations, but it is more and more buildings of all types that cater for cautious security planning, taking place hand-in-hand with architecture design process It is therefore, vital to accustom architects with a range of security factors so as...