Reference Manual to Mitigate Potential Terrorist Attacks Against Buildings

Provides guidance to the building science community of architects & engineers, to reduce physical damage to buildings, related infrastructure, & people caused by terrorist assaults. The comprehensive approach to understanding how to improve security in high occupancy buildings will better protect the nation from potential threats by identifying key actions & design criteria to strengthen our buildings from the forces that might be anticipated in a terrorist assault. Many of the methodologies in this publication have been adapted from other gov't. sources & modified to meet the mission of the DHS, allowing for the effective transfer of decades of Federal & DoD research & experience to the broader building science community. Illus.Brown, Michael D. is the author of 'Reference Manual to Mitigate Potential Terrorist Attacks Against Buildings ', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756741433 and ISBN 0756741432.