Federal Agencies May Review Security-Related Standards

摘要

Previous attacks on major public buildings, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1998 explosions at U.S. embassies in Africa, have prompted changes and increased spending on security standards and practices, including those dealing with design and construction. The pattern may be repeated in the wake of the Sept 11 attacks in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia. Thomas Vonier, an architect who has done security-related work for public and private clients, says that "federal agencies will inevitably conduct thoroughgoing reviews of security matters, with at least a partial view to toughening security-related design and construction standards." But he says, such standards "have probably already been pushed about as far as it is reasonable to go."