PROTECTIVE DESIGN GROUP

WHY KPFF PROTECTIVE DESIGN?

SUPPORTING THE DESIGN PROCESS

At KPFF Protective Design, our mission is to protect life, property and operations by developing protective design measures that reduce risk exposure and vulnerabilities while enhancing resiliency. We work closely with the design team, owner, and stakeholders to understand their security needs and make informed, risk-based design decisions for their facilities. Our strategic advantage is our ability to integrate conventional and protective design, for both natural and man-made hazards, into a thoughtful and coordinated system that spans across all disciplines.

Protective Design is a highly specialized service within the A/E industry for facilities that are of high-risk to man-made disasters. Originating in hardened military facilities, Protective Design has grown over the last 20 years to include both U.S. federal and private clients, as our society has experienced terrorist, warfare and accidental events with catastrophic consequences both domestically and internationally.

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Natural Hazards

Manmade Hazards

+ Determine Risks+ Develop Resiliency

We understand the importance of proactively collaborating with the design team to implement project-specific physical security requirements. We work with each design team consultant to orientate them on the guiding principles of security design and support the development of cost-effective and constructible design strategies. Our focus is to provide an integrated approach to protective design that serves to respect and ideally enhance other project goals, such as architectural aesthetics and sustainability.

In support of the design process, some of our tasks by design discipline are:

Architecture space planning of high-risk spaces (i.e. public lobbies, loading docks, mailrooms, etc.) and assets (critical utilities, occupied space, data centers, etc.), faade design for air-blast loading effects and forced entry/ballistic protection.

Civil/Landscape Architecture Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles, perimeter security - vehicle impact speed analysis, anti-ram barrier design & analysis

Structural implement best practices providing ductility, redundancy, and continuity; air-blast load prediction (external far-field, near-field, internal), member analysis and design, progressive collapse, ductile detailing

MEP protection of critical utilities, implementation of prescriptive Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) protective measures

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ASSET BEING PROTECTED

INTERVENTION ZONES

INNER PROTECTIVE LAYER

MIDDLE PROTECTIVE LAYER

OUTER PROTECTIVE LAYER

(partitions and doors within building)

(building envelope)

(natural or manmade barrier at property line)

PROTECTIVE DESIGN GROUP

Sharon Gallant, lead for KPFFs Protective Design Group, brings more than 25 years of experience in the design of buildings for extreme events. Areas of expertise include blast engineering, progressive collapse, perimeter security, and forced-entry/ballistics to mitigate the effects of manmade hazards. Bringing a unique background in both manmade and natural hazard mitigation design, Sharon is adept at working with clients to identify their risks and prioritize the implementation of corrective design measures through an integrated, multi-hazard approach with a cost/benefit decision making process.

Sharon is joined by Jessie Godinho and Mark Nadal, providing a high caliber team. They collectively provide the credentials and relationships to secure projects through their contributions to the A/E industry, security clearance status and performance on projects.

Blast EngineeringPhysical Security PlanningATFP ComplianceThreat & Risk AssessmentAccidental ExplosionsExplosive SafetyProgressive Collapse Perimeter Security DesignConventional Weapons EffectsPeer ReviewCriteria DevelopmentAdvanced Analysis(high-fidelity analysis)

100+ AT/FP Physical Security

100+ State/Federal Government

30+ Military Facilities

20+ Embassy Compounds

10+ Federal Courthouses & Office

Buildings

50+ Design-Build projects

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CALIBER OF OUR TEAM

OUR SCOPE OF SERVICES

MARKET SECTOR EXPERIENCEMilitary Corps, Navy, Marines, Air Force,Intelligence (NSA, NGA, CIA, etc.)Federal GSA, CBP, FBI, NOAA, etc.Local/State AOC, Dept. Public Works (DPW)Healthcare Veterans Administration,critical private/public hospitalsEmbassy Department of StateMulti-modal TransportationNon-Government Organizations United Nations,International Monetary Fund, USAID, etc.NATO Countries Domestic government and embassiesInternational private iconic developments in high-risk countries (i.e. Middle East, Asia, Europe)

RESEARCH DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION

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PROJECT EXPERIENCE