Services — Commercial Building / Property Security

We provide a range of consulting services to help commercial building and property executives/managers make informed decisions in managing their security risks, while limiting their exposure to "negligent security" litigation.

With over a quarter century of commercial property security experience involving office buildings (low and high-rise), shopping centers and similar properties, we are uniquely qualified to assist clients manage the security risks to their property, employees, clients and invitees.

Our consultations, while typically including a security policies and procedures review (or development if needed), usually address three distinct client needs:

• Businesses that either don't have but need facility physical security programs or which need enhancements to their existing programs.
• Managers responsible for acquiring contract security guard services who desire assistance in obtaining quality, cost-effective services and contracts or in assessing their in-house security function.
• Independent validation of risk assessments and current security programs efficacy or assessment of their litigation avoidance practices and measures.

 

Success Story

A spread-out, one-story commercial office facility requested our assistance in improving security, but with a requirement that annual security costs be reduced simultaneously. Analysis revealed that there were three widely separated entry points to the building. Each was manned between 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM by a receptionist who checked employee identification cards and handled visitors.

 

We recommended stand-alone card readers be installed at all three entrances (two to be monitored by closed circuit television cameras) at an estimated cost of $37,000. Receptionists were removed from two of the entrances and reassigned to the secretarial staff, at an estimated annual savings of over $80,000. The receptionist at the third (main) entrance continued to handle employee entry problems and visitors, plus any telecom inquiries from the other two entrances, which she monitored by closed circuit television (CCTV). Results from this one recommendation: Enhanced security at an estimated first year savings of approximately $43,000, plus over $80,000 cost reduction each year thereafter. Assuming at least five years operating life of the cameras, better security was obtained along with an estimated $400,000 savings.

Other Examples of Our Work

• We helped a division of a Fortune 100 company that was building a new six-story division headquarters building in a suburban campus environment. We designed an electronic access control system, along with a complete alarm system for the building, then extended these security measures to an adjacent building in which our client also leased two floors.
• We helped a property management client with three separated properties in a metropolitan downtown area develop a mix of in-house/contract security guards that provided security for all three buildings.

 

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