Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

More businesses than ever are seeing a need for secure facilities, which in turn creates a need for top level security doors, and Mayer Door can provide doors that meet a wide range of security specifications. After all, a door represents the front line of security and provides the entryway into any facility.  Doors are especially important when entry should be restricted, and when high security standards are a must.

The DCID, or Director of Central Intelligence Directive, has a comprehensive list of base level physical requirements for SCIFs, or Secure Compartmented Information Facilities, and we at Mayer Door can both meet and exceed those standards in our secure doors. Most facilities’ needs, of course, are less extreme than those of the CIA, and we represent products to meet those as well.

Events of recent years have changed the way we specify doors and windows for some buildings. We have also learned a new vocabulary. Here are the definitions of three commonly used terms: antiterrorism, counterterrorism, and force protection.

The Department of Defense (DoD) defines “antiterrorism” as “defensive measures used to reduce the vulnerability of individuals and property to terrorist acts.” This is distinct from “counterterrorism,” which refers to “offensive measures taken to prevent, deter, and respond to terrorism. Both are part of the DoD concept of “force protection,” which brings together all the security disciplines in a broader program to protect service members, civilian employees, family members, facilities and equipment.

This video created by Joe Swaika, Associate Architect at Herrington Architects, illustrates another application of the in-door proximity reader installation mentioned in the December 21 entry on The Door Blog.

As you can see, when a person holds his prox card to the surface of the door on the right with the prox reader in it, an automatic operator is triggered on the opposite door and it opens to let the person in.  This application is perfect for accommodating persons in wheelchairs or with disabilities.