The past 12 months has been an exciting and challenging period for Buro Happold Security Consulting. New projects have included Security Master Planning for the 2012 London Olympic Games, work on the design of the main Olympics Stadium, Arsenal Football Club’s Emirates Stadium (for which the company was voted Engineering Consultancy of the Year) and the Chicago Spire (the tallest building in the world). The company is still consulting on the Grand Egyptian Museum and the wider Wembley site. All the while, the practice has been active in understanding – and integrating – the disciplines of fire engineering, inclusive design, crowd movement and evacuation, IT and communications, Health and Safety, building management and security, thereby ‘sealing’ the built environment for its clients and the wider community. Indeed, the security consulting practice has recently been renamed ‘Happold Safe and Secure’. In the wider security community, Buro Happold’s consultants regularly speak at major conferences and at Special Interest Group meetings. They have also organised events for facilities managers on topics including business continuity.
Runners-Up
Arup Security Consulting
Arup Security Consulting is part of the Arup Group’s consulting practices division, providing a comprehensive security planning and design service within the built environment for clients in the UK and Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, Africa and the Middle East. A risk-led service is offered, combining threat and risk assessment techniques, resilience reviews and security planning. The company sponsors employees to take Diplomas in Security Management leading to an MSc. Arup Security Consulting won this category in both 2005 and 2006.
Paul Keeling
(Senate Training)
Paul Keeling served for 30 years in the Cheshire Police Service, completing in 2004 at the rank of Deputy Divisional Commander. Now the CEO of Senate Training, which he founded in 2001, Paul has just opened the company’s purpose-built Training Centre and head office, Senate House. At present, Senate Training is involved in the delivery of a broad portfolio of training, and boasts a rapidly expanding security auditing and consultancy division.
Peter Speight
(Reliance High-Tech)
Peter Speight is part of Reliance High-Tech’s Risk Management Consultancy, and has played a pivotal role in developing a ‘Total Security Solution’ methodology. Peter has been working with high profile corporate clients including the British Airports Authority, BMW, BSkyB and Arlington Business Parks to design and implement solutions combining risk management, security guarding and the very latest electronic systems.
TPS
One of the largest security consultancies in the UK, TPS offers advice on operational, physical and electronic security as well as counter-terrorism measures, and has many years’ experience of meeting the Government’s security requirements for protecting British ministers, members of the Royal Family and civil establishments. The company is an active member of the BSIA’s Security Consultancy Section, and both organises and promotes security seminars in conjunction with a host of multinational company partners.
VIDEF Security Consulting
VIDEF Security Consulting has been a finalist in the Security Consultant category every year since 2002. It offers a full range of security consultancy and project management services, from advising clients on strategy to taking full responsibility for an entire security programme. VIDEF plans and develops integrated solutions that not only encompass the latest developments in security technology, but also architectural and operational measures. Clients include the Bank of America and CSFB.
