The Hardened Structures Engineering team provides the following building “hardening” services to meet your damage mitigation expectations:

Blast mitigation design and construction for new or existing commercial buildings

Analysis of structural building elements

Site and building assessments of a commercial building from a wide spectrum of threats including earthquake, natural disasters, CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) threats

Security assessment including building “hardening” recommendations

Building “Hardening” Process:

The Hardened Structures team provides a detailed survey to determine and record current structural integrity, barriers, detection systems, operational, logistic, and security requirements, roads, landscaping, and other features.

This initial site survey information must be integrated and coupled with the appropriate building “Hardening” design and planning to provide the necessary client specific level of protection (see chart below) for critical asset protection

Levels of Protection – Commercial Buildings