High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety
1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions
Reference books for the security and life safety operations of high-rise office buildings, hotels, residential buildings, and mixed-use facilities.
“Outstanding book. Extensive research utilized as well as many great references used throughout the book. Mark H. Beaudry, CPP, author of Contemporary Lodging Security. "High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety is the most comprehensive guide on all practical aspects of day-to-day security and fire life safety." Jan Klerks, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago.
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“Outstanding book. Extensive research utilized as well as many great references used throughout the book. Mark H. Beaudry, CPP, author of Contemporary Lodging Security. "High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety is the most comprehensive guide on all practical aspects of day-to-day security and fire life safety." Jan Klerks, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago. ~
High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, 3e, is a comprehensive reference for managing security and fire life safety operations within high-rise buildings. It spells out the unique characteristics of skyscrapers from a security and fire life safety perspective, details the type of security and life safety systems commonly found in them, outlines how to conduct risk assessments, and explains security policies and procedures designed to protect life and property. Craighead also provides guidelines for managing security and life safety functions, including the development of response plans for building emergencies.
This latest edition clearly separates out the different types of skyscrapers, from office buildings to hotels to condominiums to mixed-use buildings and explains how different patterns of use and types of tenancy impact building security and life safety.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, an imprint of Elsevier ✧ 2009 ✧ 652 pages
ISBN 9781856175555 (hardcover)
ISBN 9780080877853 (eBook)
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Praise from readers
“Highly acclaimed in its first edition, the update of Geoff Craighead’s High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety manages to outdo the original. The thoroughly referenced work picks up where the last edition left off, detailing advances in practices and technology as well as discussing the impact of the destruction of the Twin Towers. It’s destined to be a bible to building security professionals, an in-depth overview for other security professionals, and an engaging read for laypersons.”
— GINA ARBAU, CPO, CSS, Group 4 Falck. Security Management, Arlington, Viriginia.
“Just when you thought you knew it all after having read the second edition of High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, the author Geoff Craighead managed to expand the topic to a whopping 664 pages in the fully updated and expanded third edition of the book. The first edition pictures a row of office towers on New York’s 6th avenue and the second edition had the Empire State Building on its cover. This third edition features the Mile High Tower once envisioned by Frank Lloyd Wright, hinting that even for Mr. Craighead, it will be difficult for even him to outdo himself in the future. It’s safe to say that High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety is the most comprehensive guide on all practical aspects of day-to-day security and fire life safety. Because of its thoroughness and its structured approach, it can easily present itself as the encyclopedia on the matter.” covered.”
— JAN KLERKS, Research and Communications Manager, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago, Illinois.
“The third edition of High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety is extraordinarily thorough. It is not possible to think of an issue relating to high-rise building security that has not been covered.”