Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, or CPTED, is a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring crime through environmental design.
CPTED and Placemaking: Integrating landscape architecture and security for safer environments
Category: Security
Podcast: Keeping K-12 students safe demands a holistic approach to school security
Holistic security considerations for K-12 school design are examined in this 17-minute episode featuring Ryan Searles, IMEG’s security consulting group leader.
Food for Thought Leadership: Trending healthcare content to read and share
If you’re attending the 2023 Healthcare Facilities Symposium—or any other healthcare conference on the horizon—you can gain some insight into some of the formal or informal discussions sure to be heard by perusing the following curated collection of recent IMEG healthcare-related blogs, executive guides, and podcasts.
De-escalation by Design: Making behavioral health, ER/ED facilities safer
De-escalation by Design is a security concept that creates spaces that are safe, calm, and therapeutic. It adapts tenets of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) to the indoor behavioral healthcare environment, and hospital emergency departments, to allow patients and staff dignity, respect, and agency.
CPTED: Comprehensive strategies to keep people and buildings safe (Podcast included)
CPTED is so much more than surface-level protection; it leverages architectural elements to create secure environments that don’t detract from the design aesthetic or function.
Border infrastructure crucial to U.S. and Mexico economies
Border infrastructure is crucial to growing the economies of both the U.S. and Mexico. Engineering design is of vital importance to the efficiency and safety of the border buildings and the commerce they facilitate.
IMEG Podcast | Back to the Office, Part 1: Helping Employees Feel Safe
Helping employees feel safe and secure as they return to the workplace is discussed in part one of a two-part IMEG podcast.
IMEG Podcast | Back to the Office, Part 2: Crisis Management and Taming the Lizard Brain
Listen to our most recent podcast “Back to the Office, Part 2: Crisis Management and Taming the Lizard Brain.”
K-12 security and lighting: Notification and safer egress for assailant events and emergencies
Early warning strategies that combine a K-12 building’s new or existing security and lighting systems to function as a notification resource during an active assailant event or environmental emergency could make schools safer.
Design of mass notification system starts with risk analysis
Before you install a mass notification system in your building, a risk analysis should be performed to determine the needs and requirements of your system.
