High Rise Security and Fire Life Safety [Hardcover]

Geoff Craighead (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0750695765 | ISBN-13: 978-0750695763

High Rise Security and Fire Life Safety is a valuable reference which will provide the reader with all the knowledge needed to manage security and fire life safety in a high rise facility. This includes conducting security and fire life safety surveys, effectively managing security programs, and preparing for high-rise emergencies.



Provides comprehensive documentation to aid in developing high-rise security and fire life safety programsFamiliarizes the reader with all the elements of high rise security and safety

Editorial Reviews

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'With this book, author Geoff Craighead takes on a dauntingly wide-ranging and potentially dry topic and renders a comprehensive and thoroughly engaging work. The author demonstrates in-depth knowledge of various topics, but wisely devotes greater attention to the more important ones, and always keeps the work flowing...This well-edited book will serve as a reliable reference source to all high-rise practitioners of fire/life-safety, building operations, and security, from the front-line worker to corporate executive. Its lively writing style is an added bonus for readers used to leaden prose in books of this type.'
Security Management

Book Description

New revised edition with 25% more material! Includes an analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 457 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (December 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750695765
• ISBN-13: 978-0750695763
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,170,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the megacities of the world- Tall Building Checklist!, August 2, 2000

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Richard A. Candee (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Rise Security and Fire Life Safety (Hardcover)

for investors, managers, and inspectors of tall buildings, this is an exceptionally useful book. Mr. Graighead combines his Australian roots and his California experience in a clear guide to fire safety and security management of these "vertical villages." I have quoted from this work in forums around the world, and have made this book a special present for colleagues in the fire service and architecture and "authorities having jurisdiction." It is a how- to and why guide to active systems. I recommend it highly. And, given that so many skyscrapers are now being built in Asia and in Latin America, I hope this is translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Portuguese. - Richard A. "Nick" Candee, Executive Director, Global Operations, NFPA International

5.0 out of 5 stars Exellent, September 26, 2011

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Raul - See all my reviews

This review is from: High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety (Hardcover)

This book has everything if you are to become a Facilities Manager. I recommend it!! I used it in college and I learned lots of things about buildings! Not only high rise building, but all buildings...From security, to alarms and to history.