420 Reasons your Grow House Needs Better Security
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the importance of designing a secure building for high value manufacturing and distribution – including but not limited to the cannabis industry.
- Provide an overview of the minimal level of security that is required for Cannabis processing facilities and discuss the wide range of secure building design requirements that vary based on the industry and access points of a facility.
- Provide a list of specific areas of a building and how to design them in a way that will protect not only the material assets with in the building, but more importantly provide safety, security, and mental well-being to occupants.
- Discuss the importance of architects understanding the pros and cons of each access control option that can be designed into a building to ensure they choose the correct one for their particular application. Understand when to use visible security as a design deterrent, and when architects should design security that is hidden into the architecture – either to conceal it from occupants (for mental health and well-being) or from threats (as an added security measure).
Credits:
This course is approved as a Structured Course
This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines
Approved for structured learning
Approved for Core Learning
This course can be self-reported to the NLAA
Course may qualify for Learning Hours with NWTAA
Course eligible for OAA Learning Hours
This course is approved as a core course
This course can be self-reported for Learning Units to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia
Continuously growing high cash businesses, such as cannabis, pharmaceutical, and other high value manufacturing industries, have an increased risk for robberies and theft. For that reason, it is important that the architects that are designing buildings for these types of businesses incorporate the proper level of protection and required security needs. For example, as the government continues to legalize cannabis, they also continue to regulate it – and a major focus of that regulation is on the security that must be designed into a building. Architects then have the option to choose visible security – as a deterrent to would-be criminals, or hidden security - making security not only an integrated design element, but also more difficult to overcome. To add to the complexity, minimum security requirements for these facilities vary by state. Our goal is to take a comprehensive look at the overall importance, need and requirements of designing a secure building for these high-value, at-risk industries.
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