E – 1560 Antiterrorism Assumptions for Building Design

Description

This course discusses the location, size, and nature of terrorist threats that are unpredictable. The standards discussed here are based on a specific range of assumed threats that provides a reasonable baseline for the design of all inhabited buildings. Designing to resist baseline threats will provide general protection today and will establish a foundation upon which to build additional measures where justified by higher threats or where the threat environment increases in the future. While those baseline threats are less than some of the terrorist attacks that have been directed against personnel in the past, they represent more severe threats than a majority of historical attacks. It would be cost prohibitive to provide protection against the worst-case scenario in every building. The terrorist threats addressed in these standards are further assumed to be directed against personnel. Threats to other assets and critical infrastructure are beyond the scope of these standards.

Course Outline
1. ASSUMPTIONS
2. BASELINE THREAT
3. CONTROLLED PERIMETERS AND ACCESS CONTROL
4. LEVELS OF PROTECTION
5. APPLICABLE EXPLOSIVE WEIGHT
6. STANDOFF DISTANCES
7. UNOBSTRUCTED SPACE
8. BUILDING OCCUPANCY LEVELS
9. LAMINATED GLASS AND POLYCARBONATE
10. EXEMPTED BUILDING TYPES
11. POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

This course will give civil engineers and other professional engineers insights into the nature of terrorist threats.

• Learn about the location, size, and nature of terrorist threats, which by their nature are unpredictable;
• Learn about baseline explosive weights;
• Learn how vehicle bomb are assumed to be a stationary vehicle bomb, and the assumption inherent in the stationary vehicle bomb is that the aggressors want to park the vehicles covertly without being noticed as doing anything unusual;
• Learn how waterborne vessels will be assumed to contain quantities of explosives associated with either explosive indicated, depending on whether or not a controlled perimeter has been established.
• Learn how indirect fire weapons are assumed to be military mortars with fragmentation rounds containing explosives; and
• How direct fire weapons include small arms weapons and shoulder fired rockets that require direct lines of sight.