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In
a world changed forever by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,
architects have embraced a heightened responsibility to understand the
nature of the threats and risks to the built environment. As part of that
responsibility, they are joining with owners, users, architects, engineers,
and law enforcement security specialists to define and develop an appropriate
built world for future generations. The second annual Congress on Infrastructure
Security for the Built Environment (ISBE) September 16–18 in Washington,
D.C., offers an opportunity for allied professionals who design, protect,
and secure the nation’s infrastructure to share knowledge about
security-related design principles, standards, guidelines, code responses,
disaster preparedness, certifications, clearances, and document controls.
Because the ISBE congress will incorporate the Committee
on Architecture for Justice’s fall conference, AIA members have
an opportunity to attend two meetings for the price of one. CAJ is co-hosting
the event, which means AIA members may attend CAJ-specific seminars, as
well as four infrastructure preparedness tracks sponsored by The Infrastructure
Security Partnership (TISP):
- Threat vulnerability and risk assessment
- Security and design
- Physical and critical infrastructures
- Information, education, and outreach.
AIA members can earn continuing education credits
for both the CAJ programs and for many of the co-sponsored classes.
Join national leaders to review and discuss the
new World Trade Center designs, the Pentagon reconstruction project, new
security and design requirements and guidelines, and ideas for designing
outstanding public- and private-sector projects. Topics will include:
- Infrastructure and chemical/biological/radiological preparedness
- Security design principles, standards, guidelines, and code responses
- The ins and outs of certifications, clearances, and document controls
- Interdisciplinary design responses
- Design requirements for and legal and insurance
issues associated with homeland security.
Invited speakers
The program will also include a Congressional Leaders Forum, with Sen.
Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and invited guest Rep. Jim Turner (D-Tex.). Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has also been invited to speak
at the event. Other invited presenters include:
- Carl Galioto, AIA, partner, Skidmore, Owings
and Merrill
- Michael Griebel, Assoc. AIA, HSB Architects
- Hon. George C. Hanks, Texas Court of Appeals
- Richard Kuchnicki, International Code Council
- Barbara Nadel, FAIA, Barbara Nadel Architects
- John Sporidis, PE, Syska Hennessy Group
- Richard Tomasetti, PE, partner, Thorton-Tomasetti
Structural Engineers
TISP is an organization formed as a direct response
to the events of September 11 and includes the AIA and 170 other public
and private-sector groups whose expertise has a direct impact on the future
security of America’s built infrastructure.
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