Site Security
William H. Gordon Associates, Inc. (Gordon) Site Security Group’s mission is to address the security and operational needs of public and private facilities, while maintaining their sense of openness and accessibility. To accomplish this, Gordon has developed a unique approach to security planning called Integrated Secure and Sustainable Design (ISSD), which utilizes Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles to integrate traditional physical security measures and community policing protocols with operational objectives and sustainability goals for the facility’s exterior and interior spaces. This approach advances the objectives for the utilization of CPTED as mandated within the Interagency Security Committee’s (ISC) Design Criteria, the Public Buildings Service Facilities Standards (GSA), and the Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG).
Gordon’s multi-disciplinary professional consulting team of security and law enforcement professionals, CPTED specialists, and LEED AP engineers and landscape architects provide innovative cost effective site and security solutions by focusing on the positive use of space and natural elements to develop a desirable and functional environment for the intended users, while creating difficult and problematic conditions for the criminal element.
What makes Gordon’s approach unique?
Gordon’s approach promotes proactive security planning at the earliest stages of program development through an integrated process that considers the operational, sustainable, and design requirements for a facility. Key aspects of this integrated process include:
A key aspect of security planning is the management of fear – real or perceived, since perceived fear becomes reality to those we seek to protect. “It takes courage, conviction, and a visionary plan to say that in our time buildings are not fortresses. An integrated approach results in planning from a base of POWER, not one of FEAR.”