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Al Gogolin Edward J. Hecker Principal/Program Man- Chief, Office of
Homeland Security and Provost ager, Federal Services Marshal, Directorate
of Civil Works, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Pond & Company and Mary
Ellen Hynes, Ph.D How is your firm changing design technology and/ or
practices to accommodate Deputy, Critical Infrastructure Protection R&D
security-related issues Science and Technology Directorate for
infrastructure U.S. Department of Homeland Security development?
Eighty-five percent of the nation's infrastructure is owned by the private
sector. A fter 9/11, security issues How do you envision the engineering
firm's role in the National Infrastructure took on a greater impor-
Protection Plan NIPP and the National Response Plan NRP ? tance throughout
all aspects of infrastructure develop- T he grand challenge for engineering
firms is to develop infrastructure security solutions that ment. Pond &
Company has are so economically attractive that they become widely
implemented. New design concepts attempted to address our clients' are
needed that balance investment in protection NIPP and investment in
resiliency security needs by placing an NRP and continuity of business
plans with all the demands on these systems in an economically increased
emphasis on training sustainable manner. Future solutions need to address
the nature of critical infrastructure systems, our design personnel in
current and ingeniously anticipate and defeat the ever-evolving
sophistication of threats. techniques and standards for Cooperative
security solutions are needed that span many businesses, many management
cul- security design. tures and many different types of infrastructure,
both physical and cyber, in a systems-level man- As a result, our project
delivery ner. There needs to be an innovative use of existing and emerging
materials that are resilient to process now involves a dialogue extreme
loads, aesthetically appealing in public environments and decrease
life-cycle costs. There with clients concerning their par- also must be
intelligent monitoring systems that interpret the scene around them and
assess the ticular security needs. We now health and integrity of the
infrastructure and that can automatically respond, if needed in a crisis.
are integrating the latest anti-ter- rorism/force protection standards
developed by the U.S. Depart- ment of Defense which involve specified
stand-off distances, explosive blast mitigation, pro- tection against
progressive col- Michael Flatt lapse and access control measures for
vehicles and personnel into Associate our federal and state projects. The
private sector also has shown Hanson Professional Services Inc. an
interest in incorporating the latest security techniques. We How is your
firm changing design technology and/or anticipate the trend toward
practices to accommodate security-related issues for increased security
measures will infrastructure development? continue indefinitely, and our
firm has placed a great deal of D esign codes are continually evolving.
And now that the design environment has changed, emphasis on meeting this
need. we must apply our past experience and knowledge base in innovative
ways to protect our- selves and still design affordable facilities. Our
firm is dealing with security and anti-terror- ism/force protection design
issues by educating our staff in the relevant aspects of this type of
design through on- and off-site training opportunities, by keeping our
designers informed with respect to new security product technology, and by
using computer software to determine blast forces and design structures to
prevent progressive collapse. After one of our recent military building
projects was designed, the new anti-terrorism require- ments came into
effect. We had to take a fresh look at our design and adjust for the
Department of Defense's Unified Facilities Criteria: Minimum
Anti-terrorism Standards for Buildings. Now we have transferred our
knowledge of protective design tactics for military facilities to many of
our civilian projects and customized the criteria for specific project
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