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The United States General Services Administration (GSA) has officially released a new update to their progressive collapse criteria titled, General Services Administration Alternate Path Analysis & Design Guidelines For Progressive Collapse Resistance, dated October 24, 2013. This document has been modified from previous versions to more effectively address leased as well as owned facilities. Applicability […]

Sometimes it seems that the world of blast design is a little bit like the wild, wild, west right now.   As more organizations, institutions, and owners have become aware of the need for protecting people and places from explosions, there has been an outpouring of new – and often conflicting – criteria and guideline documents.   […]

Stone Security Enginering had a great 2013 and we are looking forward to a fantastic 2014, and we owe it to you – our clients, colleagues, and friends. As a way of saying thank you, we wanted to give a little something back, and decided that this would be a great time to share our latest iStandoff […]

This one is for my Search and Rescue Colleagues (and geeks of all professions)…. Expanding on the theme of using robots to replace humans in potentially life threatening situations (think bomb disposal robots), the US Pentagon’s DARPA has held a Robotics Challenge, 2013 with the initial trials just completed.  The robots were required to perform 8 […]

A new supertall highrise will be rising above the skyline of Jakarta in 2020 and it will generate its own power.  SOM has been working with the energy company Pertamina to design a 99 story headquarters building that will incorporate multiple modes of power generation.  Between energy saving measures and the planned power generation, the goal […]

The question of the day is how to keep shoppers safe from the increasing number of mall attacks, without letting the shoppers know it….     (Read Article Here)