Protecting Building Occupants and Operations from Biological and Chemical Airborne Threats A Framework for Decision Making (2007) / Chapter Skim
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7 Conclusions and Recommendations
7 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 104-111
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Recommendation 1: Clear and realistic building protection goals and objectives should be defined prior to deploying protection systems. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
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To further complicate the matter, every building is unique because of the variations in its architecture and design, the materials used in and personnel who performed its construction, and wear and tear. All of these factors should be systematically considered before funds are committed to implementing building protection systems.
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The metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of building protection should be defined on the basis of the goals and objectives of protection. For example, if the goal is to maintain critical activities, metrics for evaluation might be continuity of operation and time to recover from an incident or to restore services.
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Thus, the ability of different metrics to accurately measure or estimate performance of a building protection system should also be considered in metric selection. For example, even though FOE might be a preferred metric to fraction of building exposed (FBE)
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analyzing costs and benefits using appropriate metrics and modeling and simulation tools as needed. The complexity of the steps in the framework and the time required for each step will depend upon the program and building protection objectives.
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Thus, the effectiveness of current concepts of building protection accomplishing a mission is uncertain. Although models have been developed to assess the impact of threat types, they could be strengthened with broad application, as well as testing and feedback, because existing models do not cover many scenarios.
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Once a framework for building protection is established and validated by deployments, it can be used to develop standardized building protection responses that capture "best practices" from comprehensive considerations of threat types and cost-benefit analysis across many building types. The development of standardized building protection responses does not infer that consideration of building protection on a case-by-case basis is unnecessary.
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To sustain the performance of a deployed building protection system or the framework to support its deployment, deployed building protection systems and their corresponding deployment processes should be reviewed periodically to assess whether they align with changing building conditions, building design methods, sensor and protection technologies, and threat types.
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