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High-Rise Buildings: Security for Residences and Offices

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High-rise security refers to a specialized but comprehensive safety and protection approach to prevent, mitigate, minimize, and respond the possible danger and emergency situations to life and property for occupants who reside and/or work in multistory buildings from various natural and human-made threats. Security professionals’ predominant areas of responsibilities include lobby concierge, operating and monitoring CCTV, screening visitors and client employees, building inspection, and access control.

Introduction

High-rise buildings provide numerous benefits (e.g., a large amount of living, working space on a small land footprint, and reduction of the costs of providing utilities and services) to residences and offices in urban settings, but such benefits come with security and safety issues and challenges. Since they occupy small and size to erect the structures to reach multiple floors, easily from over 10 stories to near or sometimes over 100 stories, high-rise...

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  1. Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA

    Seungmug (Zech) Lee

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  1. Dept of Security, Fire & Emergency Mgmt, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA

    Lauren R. Shapiro

  2. Dept. of Security, Fire & Emergency Mgmt, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA

    Marie-Helen Maras

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Lee, S.(. (2019). High-Rise Buildings: Security for Residences and Offices. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_149-1

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