Geoff Craighead

High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, 3e, is a comprehensive reference for managing security and fire life safety operations within high-rise buildings. It spells out the unique characteristics of skyscrapers from a security and fire life safety perspective, details the type of security and life safety systems commonly found in them, outlines how to conduct risk assessments, and explains security policies and procedures designed to protect life and property. Craighead also provides guidelines for managing security and life safety functions, including the development of response plans for building emergencies. This latest edition clearly separates out the different types of skyscrapers, from office buildings to hotels to condominiums to mixed-use buildings, and explains how different patterns of use and types of tenancy impact building security and life safety.

• Differentiates security and fire life safety issues specific to: Office towers; Hotels; Residential and apartment buildings; Mixed-use buildings
• Updated fire and life safety standards and guidelines
• Includes a CD-ROM with electronic versions of sample survey checklists, a sample building emergency management plan, and other security and fire life safety resources

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780080877853
• Artikelnr.: 47273952

Autorenporträt

Geoff Craighead is Vice President of High-Rise Services for Pinkerton, a Securitas Company. He has been involved with the security and life safety operations of high-rise facilities for over twenty years. He has been the security and fire safety director of a 62-story skyscraper and has conducted extensive security surveys and training, developed security policies and procedures, and written building emergency plans. He is certified by the Los Angeles Fire Department to provide high-rise life safety services and is Board Certified in Security Management (CPP) by ASIS International. He currently serves as President of the Professional Certification Board that administers certification programs for security professionals throughout the world, and Co-Chair of the BOMA Greater Los Angeles Security and Emergency Preparedness Committee

Inhaltsangabe

Author's BiographyAcknowledgmentsPreface Foreword to the Third
EditionForeword to the Second EditionForeword to the First EditionChapter 1
: High-Rise Building Definition, Development, and UseChapter 2: Security
and Fire Life Safety Uniqueness of High-Rise BuildingsChapter 3: Security
and Fire Life Safety ThreatsChapter 4: Risk AssessmentsChapter 5: Building
Security Systems and Equipment Chapter 6: Building Fire Life Safety Systems
and EquipmentChapter 7: Management of the Security FunctionChapter 8:
InvestigationsChapter 9: Office BuildingsChapter 10: Hotel Buildings
Chapter 11: Residential and Apartment BuildingsChapter 12: Mixed-Use
BuildingsChapter 13: Liaison with Law Enforcement and Fire Authorities
Chapter 14: Laws, Codes, Standards, and GuidelinesEpilogueThe World's
Tallest BuildingsAcronymsAbbreviations and ConversionsIndex