Secure facilities, from design to certification.
Independent project management and security design for secure facilities. We take new facilities from design to completion, and existing facilities from assessment to remediation.
Secure on paper, and secure in use.
We have designed, delivered and remediated secure facilities from Zone 2 to Zone 5. The risk usually sits in the same two places, and we plan for both from the first brief.
New facilities: coordination.
The security requirement has to hold through the architectural, mechanical, acoustic, electrical and communications design. It breaks down at the interfaces, where each consultant has done their own work correctly and no one owns the space between them.
The higher zones add emanation security: limiting the electromagnetic radiation a facility gives off. It cannot be retrofitted to a finished design, and it needs precise detailing of the building around it. We bring it into the design from the start.
Existing facilities: change over time.
The standard changes, and a facility built five years ago may no longer meet current criteria. Tamper-evident finishes degrade. A new service is run through a wall that was part of the security or acoustic treatment. An upgrade goes in and the redundant cabling stays behind. Doors stop self-securing or lose their acoustic rating, and no one notices because they still close. Electronic security components reach end of life, and no one has planned their replacement.
Each is small. Together they decide whether a facility passes its assessment.
What we do.
End-to-end delivery.
We assemble and manage the consultant team, and coordinate the design across the disciplines where it usually breaks down. On larger projects we act as project manager and contract administrator and engage a builder. On smaller scopes we manage delivery directly. In an operating facility, we plan access, noise, isolations and staging around your operations, and identify early the parts of the programme that cannot move. If the security requirement changes mid-project, we treat it as a scope change and price its cost and time impact before anything is committed.
Assessment and remediation.
We assess a facility against the requirements that apply to it, report where it does not comply, propose the remediation, and lead that work on site.
Security design.
We design security systems for Zone 2 facilities and above: access control, intruder alarm systems and CCTV, coordinated with the architecture and building services around them. We work directly for clients, or within a design team led by a head contractor, design practice or facilities manager, from concept design through documentation, construction and certification.
Information control.
Project information for a secure facility is a target in its own right. We protect it from the first brief. We do not publish how. Clients who need the detail are briefed under the arrangements that apply to them.
Recent secure projects.
Four with method., and two delivered by our principal at a previous security consultancy. Clients are not named here. We can discuss any of them in person.
- Zone 4 workspace remediation.Private client, ACT. Building services upgrade and remediation of tamper-evident finishes, in an operational facility. With method.
- Zone 4 acoustic remediation.Commonwealth department, ACT. Rectification of acoustic shortfalls in an operational conference space, with testing to verify. With method.
- New office fitout.Commonwealth agency, Brisbane. Zone 2 security services design. With method.
- Office expansion.Commonwealth agency, ACT. Zone 2 security services design for an expansion within existing premises. With method.
- Zone 5 survey and recertification.Commonwealth department, ACT. Survey of three facilities for non-compliance, a remediation package, and acoustic testing to support recertification. Before method.
- Zone 4 workspace.Commonwealth agency, NSW. Design services project management and security design, through defects rectification and certification. Before method.
The full record of security design work is on the About page.
Security master licences held by Masterplan Building (NSW) Pty Ltd t/a Method Project Management — NSW 000111148, ACT 17503026, QLD 4959252.
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You don't need to tell us anything about the facility to start. A name and a way to reach you is enough. We can work under a non-disclosure agreement from first contact.
References available on request.