The ASIS Egypt Cairo Chapter’s first meeting in 2014 had Stone’s own Arturo Montalva present as the guest speaker. Below is a brief summary of the program from the latest ASIS Middle East Dynamics Newsletter. “The Egypt Cairo Chapter held its first meeting of 2014 on March 20 at the newly opened Le Meridien Hotel at […]
Industry Developments
Lessons Learned from Power Grid Preparedness Drill
An after-actions report from GridEx II was released on March 12, 2014. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) held its second grid security exercise, GridEx II on November 13th and 14th. That exercise brought together over 2,000 participants from over 234 organizations from groups all across the United States, Canada, and Mexico and was […]
GSA Updates Progressive Collapse Guidelines
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 […]
Decoding Airblast Glass Response Classification Systems
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. […]
Happy New Year!
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 […]
Rescue Robots!
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 […]