Course Instruction Material

Instruction Material

Day 1 Modules

01 Introductions, Class Overview, Site Safety - Holly Stone and Team

02 What Are We Protecting Against? - History of attacks and resulting building damage/personnel injuries - Holly

03 Terminology - The basic terms and concepts used in blast resistant and protective design, including how they can be different between industries - Arturo Montalva

04 Anatomy of An Explosion: Explosion effects and key considerations contributing to building damage - Holly

05 Blast Injuries - Injury modes and types of injuries based on explosion size, proximity and building damages - Holly

Day 2 Modules

06 Perimeter Types - Whether for a single building or a compound, discussion of perimeter types based on identified threats and available resources - Holly

07 Building Types and Materials - Standard building types used in different areas of the world, including materials and configurations. - Arturo and Tim Sisson

08 Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Standard Building Types - Inherent resistance of the standard building types to blast and other threats - Arturo

09 Process of Protection - Whether for a single building or a compound, discussion of perimeter types based on identified threats and available resources - Holly

10 Definition of Need: The first part of the Process of Protection is to define the needs with respect to the different threats and required protection against threats - Holly

11 FE/BR - Holly

Day 3 Modules

12 Conventional Building Retrofits - Conventional Building Retrofits: Retrofit types available to increase protection, including both high‐tech products and low‐tech built‐in‐place solutions. Tim and Khaled Eldomiaty

13 Blast (or Multi-threat) Vulnerability Assessment - What are vulnerability assessments and what information is needed as inputs and what will come out as results. - Arturo

14 Security Design Criteria - How do you define what you need in terms of protection for a project? Holly

15 New Building - Key elements of protective design for new buildings. - Arturo

Day 4 Modules

16 Procurement, Design and Construction Part I - Once the need has been identified and an assessment completed, the design must be completed and the construction completed. What does this entail? - Holly

17 Industrial Design - Khaled

18 Money Matters - Blast and other types of protective design are not always inexpensive. Discussion of costs associated with retrofits and impacts on new construction. - Arturo

19 Procurement, Design, and Construction Part II - Once the need has been identified and an assessment completed, the design must be completed and the construction completed. What does this entail? - Holly

20 Documents and Guidelines - Discussion of the available Standards, Guidelines, Criteria, and Best Practices Documents.

21 Myth Busting - Addressing common misconceptions in blast and protective design. - Arturo