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Integrated Secure and Sustainable Design (ISSD™)

CPTED
Gordon’s Integrated Secure and Sustainable Design (ISSD™) is the first detailed site and security programming process to be created that utilizes Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles to integrate physical security requirements, operational objectives, sustainability goals, and law enforcement protocols. Traditional physical security strives to protect assets and prevent crime using human, physical, and psychological forces. Guards, physical security barriers, electronic sensor/surveillance devices and other security measures are utilized to establish a defensive posture around a protected asset. Although proven effective, these standard practices can produce long-term financial and social costs if implemented without consideration to site and sustainability objectives.

ISSD achieves security objectives without compromising the operational and sustainable requirements for the facility utilizing a customized discovery program and integrated analysis process during the programming phase of the project. This unique approach identifies the objectives of all stakeholders and correlates the common parameters/opportunities to establish a definitive site and security program focused on meeting the critical functional requirements of the facility in a timely and cost effective manner.

ISSD Value Proposition

  • ISSD addresses operational, security, and sustainable objectives at the earliest stages of acquisition and programming. Processes utilized today to address these objectives are inconsistent and result in conflicting requirements and untimely decision making.
  • ISSD utilizes a customized discovery program during a formal stakeholder conference to clearly establish the objectives of all parties with a focus on the common parameters/opportunities associated with security, operations, and sustainability.
  • ISSD utilizes CPTED based analysis tools to identify specific facility programming recommendations for the conceptual design including recommendations on the integration of LEED/Sustainability measures with security objectives for existing or new facilities. Recommendations achieve significant cost savings as opposed to facilities retrofitted for security during the design/construction phase.
  • ISSD may include a CPTED based security assessment, which identifies specific recommendations to address security and/or sustainability concerns for incorporation into future facility planning or operational updates.
  • ISSD identifies opportunities to reduce the needs associated with security personnel and equipment, thus lowering the long-term costs of facility management, maintenance, and equipment replacement.