Tag: safe rooms

4 Ways Security Teams Can Protect Their Facilities from Active Shooters

By Corey Sipe, Associate Editor Apr 11, 2024 Access Control

Updated: Apr 11, 2024

The tragedy of active shooter situations and their resulting loss of life, property damage, and financial costs prompt facilities and security professionals to ask how they can harden their facilities. As part of Facilities Management Advisor’s FM NOW: Secure Buildings 2024 virtual event on March 20, John Iannarelli, ESQ, CSP, a retired Federal Bureau of […]

Under Construction: Hurricane-Hardened Emergency Center in Florida Keys

By Corey Sipe, Associate Editor Jun 20, 2023 Under Construction

Updated: Jun 21, 2023

As facilities professionals prepare for hurricane season, they should check out a hurricane-resistant emergency operations center (EOC) that’s currently under construction and is being built to weather the most dangerous Florida Keys storms: the new two-story Monroe County Emergency Operations and Communications Center on the Island of Marathon, which will be 28,321 square feet, including […]