Examples of New Architectural Applications for a New Age of Information
"Hardening High Tech Hotels"
"With stealth-like secrecy fast-track fortresses are being built across the global landscape that have become the nerve center for the new economy. These 'Tech Hotels' or Data Centers, as they are known, have become an integral and vital part of the global fiber-optic grid and wired world of telecommunications that experts now view them as the 'factories' for the new age of information. The convergence of information and security has given rise to a whole new paradigm challenge for design professionals. . ."
In reality these tech hotels have become the global reserve banks holding the deposits of the new digital economy. The crown jewels secured in these fortresses are not diamonds, emeralds or rubies, but terabytes of information whose net worth in incalculable. Power system back-ups and multiple layers of electronic and physical, visual or auditory access, ballistic assault (guns, bombs, and missiles), power interruptions, fire, flood, earthquakes, tornados, lightning strikes, electromagnetic impulse, and even dumpster diving.
Basic physical security components for most data centers include perimeter walls or fencing, armed-guard houses, bullet resistant walls, windows and doors, and even biometric scanners at multiple locations...
... Bullet resistant fiberglass panels offer particular utility to these projects by providing additional structural integrity to load-bearing walls, ballistic shielding, and contributing to sound resistance, insulation value, and even as a forced entry deterrent.
Excerpts written by Wayne Hampton, C.E.O. of Waco Composites, Ltd. in DCD Insights.
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