Steel fencing
manufacturer Zaun Limited is increasing its efforts to educate security
consultants, specifiers and architects in the latest technologies available to
design into buildings, venues and public spaces to protect the public.
In just four months,
experts from Zaun will be delivering both Royal Institute of British Architects
(RIBA) and Security Institute approved Continual Professional Development (CPD)
workshops from London to the North East to half a dozen different audiences,
culminating in early December at the International Security Expo at Kensington
Olympia.
Zaun director and
co-founder Alastair Henman has long argued that the security industry requires
greater conformity, rigour and collaboration among independent testing and
accreditation bodies – and that any penetration tests accurately vet systems in
real life scenarios.
It favours the Loss
Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) Red Book and its SR security ratings to
LPS 1175, which many specifiers are rightly now insisting upon.
But Zaun also gains
product approvals with the likes of Secured by Design (SBD), the Perimeter
Security Suppliers’ Association (PSSA), PAS 68 and IWA 14 and, of course, the
Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI).
Henman says: “So we’re
now intent on propagating this message to specifiers, designers, security
consultants, architects and anyone involved in determining the security that
will protect their staff, customers and the public for years to come.”
The sessions are
designed for security professionals who are determined to keep their learning
going throughout their careers and upgrading their knowledge with the latest
thinking on security – and operate on the classic CPD points system.
The topics fit under
the general theme of protecting business or organisational assets using
technology and span from perimeter protection and detection and information on
the SR Security Ratings and SBD and CPNI standards.
A growing area is
education in Hostile Vehicle Mitigation measures in response to the alarming
trend for terrorists to use the vehicle as a weapon to target unsuspecting and
innocent members of the public.
Two years ago, Zaun
joined the RIBA CPD Providers Network, which consists of over 500 manufacturers
and suppliers who provide RIBA-approved CPD to architects and other specifiers.
In an Architects
Journal survey of the top 120 architectural practices, 84% said they use
RIBA-approved CPD and 66% of respondents had attended a face-to-face seminar
with a RIBA CPD Providers Network member.
The network partners
deliver free RIBA-assessed CPD face-to-face in architects’ practices or on
factory tours, at RIBA CPD roadshows or online.
CPD is mandatory for
RIBA Chartered Architects, and having RIBA approved CPD material available as
seminar presentations, articles, videos, factory tours and in other formats is
a good way to open doors to start building key relationships.
Approved seminars are
worth double points to RIBA Chartered Architects.
Zaun must keep the
seminar material up-to-date and advise RIBA when it changes any content to
conform to current legislation, guidelines or user needs.
The RIBA promotes the
material on the riba.com website,
through its assessed material list and via monthly CPD Showcase e-marketing
campaigns.
