Alarming but, on the whole, preventable
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Building journal Hong Kong China, May, 1991, pp. 100-104
Abstract
There is nothing new about destruction by fire and penetration of protection devices. History is filled with conflagrations and the Trojan Horse of some 3,300 years ago is only one of the best-known examples where a security system has been bypassed, in that case a city wall and its guards.
Today, fire continues taking its deadly toll and the theft of protected assets - including white-collar crime and computer break-in - has increased in intensity.
Of all the miseries perpetrated against a community, these two are probably the most preventable. Yet, despite the abundant availability of the means it is only in recent years that the business community in Hong Kong has become truly serious about installing prevention system, with the residential and other sectors still moving cautiously today.
(1) Security: Creating a defensible space
- Safety first?
- Fighting back
- Not home-free
(2) Fire, the flaming pity!
(3) Designing a Smoke-Extraction System for an atrium building
- Smoke Extraction
- Conclusion
- Further determinants
- References
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1991
Language
en