Designing Safer Public Spaces – A Practical Guide to Hostile Vehicle Mitigation

Description

This CPD explores how to effectively integrate physical security measures into public realm design without compromising on aesthetics or usability. Focusing on the principles of designing out vehicle borne attacks, this session equips architects and landscape architects with the knowledge to create spaces that are not only safe but also visually and functionally appealing.

Attendees will gain an understanding of:

• How to balance aesthetics with security using innovative and discreet physical security solutions
• The importance of crash-tested and hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) products in urban spaces
• Real-world case studies demonstrating the seamless integration of security into public realm projects

Whether designing security for publicly accessible locations or critical national infrastructure, this CPD will help you approach each project with a toolkit of strategies for embedding unobtrusive, functional security into your designs — ensuring safety, aesthetics, and functionality coexist.

Learning Outcomes:

• • Understand the practical considerations that accompany different types of physical security products, and how to effectively design-in proportionate solutions.
  • Learn how to interpret and compare global testing standards for crash tested physical security products, allowing for ease of product research and specification.
  • Design and specification: guidance and recommendations for real-world application, complete with case study examples to showcase different security design approaches.