Site Security with Precast Concrete

Start Date

11/28/2025

End Date

11/28/2027

Description

Comprehensive site security design should balance managing traffic flow and preventing vehicular intrusion with enhancing the existing character of the site. This course presents FEMA’s guidance on risk assessment and layers of defense, vehicle impact test standards, bollard types, the precast concrete manufacturing process, barrier system design considerations, and incorporating precast concrete bollards and site furnishings into perimeter security design.

Distance Learning

Yes

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Security Design

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.0

Learning Outcomes

Explain the three layers of defense used in site security and how bollards can be incorporated into these layers to protect people and buildings.

Recall suitable applications for high- and low-speed crash-rated bollards and the ASTM standards used to test and certify security bollards.

Describe the wet-cast concrete manufacturing process and the ASTM standards that test and evaluate concrete mixtures to ensure their strength and safety.

Discuss how precast concrete bollards and site furnishings can be used as decorative and security elements in site design, enhancing the site’s aesthetic value while protecting lives and property.

Instructors

Rob Mulry

Course Codes

Provider

AEC Daily Corporation

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