New Book: High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, Third Edition
High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, Third Edition, by Geoff Craighead, is a comprehensive reference for managing security and fire life safety operations within high-rise buildings.
It spells out the unique characteristics of skyscrapers from a security and fire life safety perspective, details the type of security and life safety systems commonly found in them, outlines how to conduct risk assessments, and explains security policies and procedures designed to protect life and property.
Craighead also provides guidelines for managing security and life safety functions, including the development of response plans for building emergencies. This latest edition clearly separates out the different types of skyscrapers, from office buildings to hotels to condominiums to mixed-use buildings, and explains how different patterns of use and types of tenancy impact building security and life safety.
====================================
Audience
Security and life safety directors, security consultants, and contract security firms, building designers and architects, commercial building owners and property managers.
===================================
Contents
Chapter 1: High-Rise Building Definition, Development and Use
Chapter 2: Security and Fire Life Safety Uniqueness of High-Rise Buildings
Chapter 3: Security and Fire Life Safety Threats
Chapter 4: Risk Assessments
Chapter 5: Security Systems and Equipment
Chapter 6: Fire Life Safety Systems and Equipment
Chapter 7: Management of the Security Function
Chapter 8: Investigations
Chapter 9: Office Buildings
Chapter 10: Hotel Buildings
Chapter 11: Residential and Apartment Buildings
Chapter 12: Mixed-Use Buildings
Chapter 13: Liaison with Law Enforcement and Fire Authorities
Chapter 14: Laws, Codes, Standards, and Guidelines
===================================
PRAISE FOR THE THIRD EDITION:
“Outstanding book. Tons of facts and graphs. Some of the best historical information that I have seen in a book in years. Extensive research utilized as well as many great references used throughout the book.” – Mark H. Beaudry, CPP, author of Contemporary Lodging Security
“The third edition of High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety is extraordinarily thorough. It is not possible to think of an issue relating to high-rise building security that has not been covered.” – Dennis O. Challinger, Fellow of the Criminology Department, University of Melbourne, Australia; author of From the Ground Up: Security for Tall Buildings.
