Limited places available
Thursday 6 October 2011
RIBA London
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD
Join us for a senior level conference discussing design, construction,
3d visualisation, future planning and key counter terrorism
initiatives for the built environment.
Having already been commissioned by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) to produce a 3d animated video to support the promotion of the Vulnerability Self-Assessment Tool (VSAT) – a project to assist owners, operators and those responsible for the security of crowded places in minimising their potential exposure to terrorist attacks – we will be joining a wide range of leading built environment and security organisations at the one-day Designing for Counter-Terrorism conference.
Driven by the Home Office, and organised in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Designing for Counter-Terrorism brings together government ministries and agencies, occupiers and built environment professionals to discover how new policy will affect their treatment of security and resilience.
The conference will explore a range of design issues in relation to counter terrorism, including:
- An overview of the key points in the government’s policy and guidance for safer places
- The benefits of incorporating security early on in the design process
- Why 3d city models can empower policy making
- Protective security: why and where it matters
- Technologies of resilience: Materials and structural design
- The final debate: “Is security at odds with the public space?
Stewart Bailey, Virtual Viewing’s MD, will deliver a presentation as part of the conference – Virtual Reality: Protection with visualisations – that will address a number of key issues where virtual reality and 3d City Modelling can be deployed to support a range of professions in assessing and reducing public risk:
- How can VR help us understand the risk in the real world?
- How scenario planning can be visualised and trained for
- Making CT guidance more accessible
- Multiple scenarios, multiple threats, one model
Download a copy of the Designing for Counter-Terrorism Conference Programme (PDF)
For information on the conference, or about Virtual Viewing’s 3d City Modelling services, please contact Yve Wallace by email or by telephone on 01908 933933.
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One aspect of business life that is often overlooked is Business Continuity and Resilience – the planning and operational procedures that will ensure that businesses are not unduly vulnerable to external threat from a wide range of factors that range from fire or flood to terrorist attack. Vulnerability affects not just the companies concerned, but has knock-on effects across the local business community where customers or suppliers are otherwise critically affected – a lesson that is important to Virtual Viewing’s MD, Stewart Bailey, who has recently been appointed to the Lead Team of Milton Keynes Business Resilience Forum (MKBRF). Piers Benn, Strategic Risk and Business Continuity Manager, Milton Keynes Council, welcomed the appointment, saying: “Stewart Bailey will bring valued insight and expertise to the Team”.
