Bullet-Resistant Guard Booth Design Protects Historic NASA Facility
Space Age Security: New B.I.G. Bullet-resistant Guard Booth Design Protects Historic NASA Facility
B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. announces installation of innovative guard booth at the NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The robust new design supports national security and infrastructure upgrades mandated by the Federal Government.
Los Angeles, CA – January 31, 2012 – Working with experts in the perimeter security field, including NASA consultants, Jacob Engineering, and Fauntleroy & Latham Architects, B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. recently designed and manufactured a tough new bullet-resistant guard station for the Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Hancock County, Mississippi.
The success of the Apollo 11 lunar mission was due in part, to the rigorous testing of certain vehicle components at The Stennis Space Center. Today, the center is home to the SSC, and to 30 other agencies engaged in space, environmental, and national defense research. When the SSC needed a robust guard shelter design to protect the facility, and its security personnel, they looked to B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. to fabricate an uncompromising security booth that would be architecturally worthy of its historically significant setting.
With bold, stylistic details reminiscent of rocket fins, incorporation of the iconic NASA shield, and use of red, white, and blue color accents, the booth and surrounding structure are a nod to a Mid-century modern aesthetic, a Futurist architectural style that reflected an American optimism so characteristic of the Space Age. B.I.G. specializes in truly custom fabrication-work that many manufacturers would not attempt to undertake.
The B.I.G. unit combined a high level of ballistics resistance with other amenities such as: high-output roof-mounted HVAC systems, industrial flooring, and a custom paint package. Smart use of interior space allowed for a complete restroom facility. The booth contained an extensive electrical infrastructure to support a flexible array of alarm, surveillance, and communication equipment.
B.I.G. Enterprises also fabricates guard shelters incorporating extra protection from chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats via an industry-exclusive process of filtration and pressurization. B.I.G. booths, shelters, and security command centers are tough, innovative, and enduring. They provide a platform for creativity, security, and maximum flexibility.
Mobile Guard Booths Increase Security at Large-Scale Public Events
The Reliant Park complex in Texas regularly hosts crowds of 15,000 spectators and 2,000 security personnel. After the 2002 terrorist attack on the Nord Ost Theatre in Moscow, which led to the deaths of more than 130 audience members and nearly 50 terrorists, security at public cultural and sporting events became a chief consideration of promoters and facility managers. Secure mobile booths around the Reliant stadium offer enhanced security.
Los Angeles, CA. – April 13, 2010 – Now, more than ever, security at public, cultural and sporting events is on the minds of facility managers whose job it is to secure the venues, and B.I.G. Enterprises (www.bigbooth.com) has been asked to help provide security for these venues with pre-fabricated mobile booths.
One large facility in Texas is Reliant Park, including The Reliant [Energy] Astrodome, Reliant Arena, Reliant Center, and Reliant Stadium, which hosts more than 700 events per year with an average attendance of 15,000. Cheyne Day, Security Manager for Reliant Park, says that mobile guard booths are a critical component of his security detail, which during events like the
Super Bowl can involve up to 2,000 people, from the familiar “Event Staff” in their yellow windbreakers to uniformed, off-duty city police and county sheriffs who monitor crowds and control traffic.
Originally Reliant Park built stationary booths onsite, but a problem surfaced—the structures kept getting hit by trucks off-loading for trade shows and other events. Finally, they came upon the mobile booth concept.
“With mobile booths, you can create layers of security in concentric circles emanating from the facility you’re securing. These rings of layered security are a much bigger deterrent to would-be criminals in persuading them that there is a greater chance of them being stopped. Even if they do manage to set off their bomb at the first or second layer—they are still away from the building and the critical mass of people they are aiming for.”
Mobile booths at Reliant Park also address the need to customize the parking space for various events. “Officers were out in the weather and couldn’t take all the gear they needed to do their jobs. They had to use their cars as pseudo-booths, which invariably blocked traffic and were dangerous as the officers had to constantly go back and forth to fetch equipment or check computer files. It was just awkward.” Day continued, “It wasn’t the image we wanted to project.”
“Mobile booths offer us the flexibility to customize our parking and crowd control to each event, and this equals better security. Event conveners have been very pleased with our ability to be anywhere they need us to be in terms of security, and when you are talking about a complex as big as this one, you had better be able to protect the facility and the patrons inside.”
VP Dave King’s Best Practices & Technologies in Perimeter Protection
In a recent discussion with Government Security News, Dave King, Vice President of B.I.G. Enterprises, offered his perspective on the five major product and technology areas of perimeter protection technology – sensing technologies, fencing, barriers, guard booths and new and emerging technologies.
B.I.G. Enterprises has been producing Guard Booths for all divisions of the military, the U.S. Secret Service, hundreds of universities, airports, major corporate headquarters and key government, nuclear chemical and other facilities for 40 years. Among the company’s breakthrough achievements, said King, B.I.G. was the first company in the field to provide bullet resistant guard booths, the first to offer architecture matching the booths’ surroundings and the first to obtain blast resistant certification for its manufacturing techniques.
Based on a recent webinar featuring experts from Southwest Microwave, Ameristar Fence, Nasatka Barriers and Bavak Speedgates, here are King’s comments on the five technology areas:
Sensing and Detection
Perimeter protection vendors typically divide the sensing function into four areas – detection, delay, assessment and response – and they typically specify one or more of four different types of detection or sensing systems:
- Fence mounted sensors that detect the cutting, climbing or lifting of the perimeter fence;
- Volumetric field sensors such as microwave, that create an invisible field of detection with height and width, making it more difficult to defeat;
- Buried or covert cables that are located in the ground using an rf field; and
- Infrared sensors which, in their active mode, provide a light beam.
The decision on which of these should be utilized, said King, should be based on the threat and risk assessment, and whether it is high, medium or low.
King added that one of the largest issues in the detection area is false alarms which are not caused by an actual intrusion, but by weather, animals, debris and ground vibrations, or, sometimes, by the equipment itself (although this is a rare occurrence with current technology). The problem with the nuisance alarms, says King, is that when there are too many of them, it causes guards to ignore the alarms.
In the case of a real alarm, however, the actual detection must be integrated with assessment, which is accomplished with a combination of CCTV and security guards in a command and control center.
Fencing
The most common types of fences used in perimeter protection, said King, are chain link, welded wire, expanded metal, punched metal, ornamental and palisade.
While chain link is the most common and least expensive, it is the least aesthetically pleasing and offers the least amount of delay resistance to attempted breaches. Welded wire, expanded metal and punched metal constitute the second type of fence fabric, are more expensive and offer added protection against someone passing items through the fence of breaching it with ordinary tools. These products are typically vinyl coated to provide color and added longevity.
There are three prevailing standards used for vehicle anti-ram protection, said King. For embassies overseas the US Department of State utilizes anti-ram walls allowing very limited penetration, since the embassy is typically in an urban setting with limited setback from public roads. For military sites, the Department of Defense uses a broader standard that incorporates a number of threat size vehicles at varying speeds with varying amounts of permissible penetration, because site conditions typically include more standoff distance between the VBIED and the protected asset. For all other sites, the appropriate standard is the ASTM F2656 standard, which incorporates four different threat vehicles, four different vehicle speeds and four different zones of penetration.
Barriers
While there are multiple types of barriers, King pointed out, there are also differing opinions among perimeter protection experts as to which ones constitute the most effective deterrent. For active vehicle entrances, sally ports and unmanned entrances, the following Active Vehicle Barriers (AVBs) are used: wedges, bollards, sliding, rising or pivoting horizontal beams and lethal net barriers – making it important, said King, for the buyer to do proper due diligence and obtain at least two opinions from the experts.
One thing that helps, said King, is that there is documented risk methodology recommended by the U.S. Government, called the Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 4-022-02. This risk based design takes a number of items into account: attack vehicle size, weight, speed and contents; allowable penetration based on standoff distances; traffic patterns; site specifics, such as approach, bends, natural obstacles; civil engineering; facility engineering; climate; and barrier operating procedures.
Another good basis for making these decisions can be obtained from the Protective Design Center (PDC) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The PDC has developed standards for Design/Criteria drawings for ACPs that provide not only recommendations but also mandatory requirements to Army installation security specialists for designing Army ACPs.
Factors that should always be taken into account, according to King, are safety, security, integration, aesthetics, maintenance and total cost of ownership over 3-5-7 years (TCO).
Guard Booths
Moving on to his own company’s core expertise, King described Guard Stations as “the one piece of equipment that is used every day” and “a key asset to the overall perimeter security plan, as it houses your guards, as well as many other critical elements, such as monitors, gate controls, duress buttons and many other options.”
“The guards are your eyes and ears,” he said, “and it is imperative that they have a well manufactured, climate controlled area to stay alert. Additionally, bullet resistant booths no longer need to look like hardened boxes. It is easy to add architectural features to make the booths fit with the overall architecture of the facility they protect, and this can be done at a surprisingly affordable cost.”
King pointed out that Guard Booths are “the first line of control to let a person into a facility”, and he emphasized the necessity of having a well-protected Guard Booth to avoid having the guard for a high security facility turn out to be “a sacrificial lamb to a terrorist.”
King reiterated that the Army Corps of Engineers’ Protective Design Center has been very important in setting standards for perimeter protection of facilities. In the case of larger corporate facilities, the guard shelters tend to be larger in size to protect more people, and in addition to interior restrooms, they tend to have interior and exterior cameras, data communications and monitors placed on shelves, with pre-run conduits and boxes installed to make it easy to install the phone and cat lines after booth installation.
At the highest level of perimeter security, such as at nuclear power plants, King pointed out that Bullet and Blast Resistant booths (BBREs) are often specified so that they can act as fighting positions, and as such, they are also equipped with slide open gun ports and exterior blinding lights so that the attacker has a hard time seeing the booth and guards.
Discussing the continuing evolution of Guard Booths, King observed that the use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) around the world serves as a daily reminder that even low-tech weapons such as homemade explosives and high-speed collisions are requiring B.I.G. Enterprises to develop ever more high-tech bullet- and blast-resistant guard booths to protect soldiers and citizens — and this mandate is nowhere more pressing than with strategically important targets like chemically processing facilities, nuclear power plants and government buildings.
“A booth that is designed to resist the blast and remain intact and working,” he said, “not only insures the guard’s life, but also allows the guard, if required, to open the gun points and return fire.”
Speed Gates and other New Technologies
In the final segment of his interview, King turned his attention to speed gates, such as the Bavak speed gates being installed at the Port of Long Beach, that can open and close in 3-5 seconds. These speed gates can work with physical security readers, such as prox readers, auto license plate recognition and under-vehicle cameras, King added, noting also that it is important to make sure that a speed gate system is UL 325 listed, King said, because the 325 listing means that the gate has been tested and proven to be safe.
In conclusion, King pointed out that the Army Corps of Engineers has developed an automated system called the AIE (Automated Installation Entry) that is becoming an integration standard. The system combines cameras, sensors, computers, EPS Systems, Electronic Security Systems (ESS), BMS Sensors that notify a central monitoring station whether a door is opening, red-green light with drop arm gate, CCTV facial recognition cameras checked against four databases and driver’s license plate recognition that is also checked against databases. King asserts that the process is so fast that it can be completed in seconds.
Other new trends and technologies include detection sensors that can pinpoint intrusions to 3 meters, and actually adapt the site with automatic compensation fence condition, terrain and environment. In addition, video analytic software can also be integrated with these location type sensors to greatly improve the effectiveness of the software analytics. And finally, adding thermal imaging cameras will allow the full video assessment in any light conditions, saving the cost of lighting and allowing the guards to have a full situational awareness 24/7.
Editor’s Note: Readers interested in further information on perimeter protection may also wish to view a Webinar produced in 2010 by B.I.G. Enterprises and Government Security News. This Webinar can be found on the home page of the GSN Website at www.gsnmagazine.com. Other expert speakers besides Mr. King include Bob Kirkaldie, VP of Sales of Southwest Microwave; Ken White, Executive Director of Perimeter Protection Systems for Ameristar Fence; Dave Natelson, Director of Sales and Marketing for Nasatka Barriers and Neil Sampson of Neil Sampson Associates.
Securing Las Vegas – New B.I.G Security Booth Graces Las Vegas Panorama Complex
Sleek, new security booth designs at Panorama Condo Complex in Las Vegas make a bold, yet harmonious architectural statement midst high-tech, high-glamour surroundings.
Los Angeles, CA – February 20, 2012 – Las Vegas is the home of exuberant, unabashed luxury. So when designers and developers required a security booth that would complement the style of the towering Panorama Condominium Complex, they commissioned B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. to fabricate it. Two stories high, sheathed in sleek metal, and fronted with a contemporary window grid, the booth epitomizes architectural harmony, melding seamlessly with its surroundings.
Not simply a formidable first line of defense, a guard shelter or booth can also make a refined architectural statement, belying the fact that it may house armed guards, surveillance cameras, robust HVAC systems and myriad electronics. The B.I.G. booth at Panorama Condominium Complex represents a world class, sophisticated style, one that is helping to shape the modern Las Vegas.
“We were pleased to work with such a unique construction project in Las Vegas. Because of our commitment to non-cookie cutter guard shelters, we knew our collaboration with them would produce something pretty unusual.” said Vice President David King.
This unit features heavy insulation in the walls and roof, dual pane insulating glass with Low-E coating, commercial roof mounted HVAC with 3 ton output, all for the severe desert climate.
Additional features include a fully equipped restroom, custom lighting inside the booth and in the upper level to enhance the architectural detail of the upper glass area at night. Built-in counters, shelves, all electrical for data/communications and an impact, fade, chemical and graffiti resistant polyurethane paint finish attest to the completeness and structural integrity of the booth.
Utilizing a proprietary “Critical Span” manufacturing technique, the B.I.G. Two-Story Guard Booth’s galvanized steel construction meets or exceeds ASTM B500 specifications, and all welds meet or exceed AWS-D1.3 and A5.18 standards.
All B.I.G. booths include U.L. approved fixtures and are manufactured in strict compliance with NEC and I.B.C specifications. They meet the local building code standards of every major area in the United States, and around the globe.
About B.I.G. Enterprises:
Since 1963, B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. of California has engineered and manufactured a comprehensive line of high quality, high-end, prefabricated security and revenue control booths. Their state-of-the-art selection of pre-assembled buildings include: guardhouses, cashier booths, portable shelters, and a variety of custom-made kiosks.
50th Survivability Guard Booth Installed
B.I.G. Announces Installation of its 50th Survivability Guard Booth Exclusively for the Nuclear Power Plant Industry
Perimeter assessment is a key element in executing an effective security model for nuclear power facilities. Many facilities now use blast and ballistic resistant guard booths and guard stations at a facility’s perimeter, which must not only stop attacks but deter them. Guard booths frequently defend facilities that are critical to life, environment and the economy, so they must offer critical survival advantages against serious attacks.
Los Angeles, CA. – February 8, 2011 – The critical advantage that improved security measures offer when protecting our nation’s nuclear power, chemical and utility facilities is understood by prefab guard-booth builder B.I.G. Enterprises (www.bigbooth.com). With increased awareness surrounding the ecological and economic impact an attack could have on our country, safeguarding critical infrastructure is a requirement. B.I.G. has just announced the installation of their 50th survivability guard booth specifically designed for the nuclear power industry—this one in the Western U.S.
With over 15,000 chemical facilities, 104 operating nuclear reactors and hundreds more utility facilities, it is necessary to tailor security to the variety of hazards at each facility. In 2003, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) developed mandates regarding enhanced security at nuclear power plants. Primary among them were changes to the security perimeter and the screening of employees, vendors, and visitors as they accessed the site.
In 2005 the Bush Administration endorsed requirements for heightened security at chemical plants, because homeland defense experts considered them highly vulnerable to catastrophic terrorist attack. Necessary measures include screening and controlling access to the facility by screening or inspecting individuals and vehicles as they enter the facility.
Recognized as an essential aspect in securing all nuclear power, chemical and utility facilities, perimeter security assessment and infrastructure is a key element in executing an effective security model. That is why many facilities recognize their vulnerabilities and licensed security-contracting firms have arisen. One such firm is Nuclear Security Services Corporation out of Chicago who recently chose B.I.G. Enterprises to provide guard shelters for specific nuclear power plants it serves.
Customers do business with Nuclear Security Services Corporation (NSSC) because of their experience designing security solutions that are currently protecting over $125 billion in U.S. critical infrastructure. NSSC has advised numerous facilities on their mission critical security solutions.
NSSC’s Tim Collins offered the following advice for securing a high-risk facility: “Security decision-makers need to consider such factors as mission critical survivability. The purpose of the guard booth is to give an advantage to one’s officers. Inside this guard booth, armed responders need the ability to interdict—to respond to very high threat levels with a high probability of survival. Guard booths are frequently defending facilities that are critical to life, environment and/or the economy. So, creating the advantage is critical.” Because guard booths play such a vital role, many are now Blast and Ballistic Resistant Enclosures.
As George Washington once stated, “There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.” When identifying the survivability advantage within a security infrastructure, perimeter security experts at B.I.G. and NSSC have joined together to prepare facility perimeters that not only stop an attack, but deter it as well.
Re-envisioned Entry Booths Pay Homage to Golden Age of Highway Travel
B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. announces new entry booth designs at Elephant Butte State Park. Park visitors are charmed by the Airstream-like exteriors; security personnel enjoy high-visibility.
Los Angeles, CA – August 5, 2011 – Decision-makers at Elephant Butte State Park in New Mexico, recently commissioned B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc.(www.bigbooth.com) to fabricate a series of revenue, and checkpoint booths modular in design, and reminiscent of the iconic Airstream travel trailers. In the perimeter security industry, B.I.G. is known primarily as a manufacturer of custom, pre-fab guard booths and shelters for high-security corporate and industrial sites. But their expert designers and fabricators aren’t afraid to temporarily leave the familiar world of gun ports and ballistics resistance behind when charged with constructing more whimsical designs. So, the Airstream-inspired booths were just delivered to New Mexico.
Classic examples of American design ingenuity, the Airstream trailers symbolize adventure, exploration, and the freedom of the open road…the exact atmosphere State Park officials wanted their entry portals to create for their valued visitors.
Efficient and evocative, these modular units were fully-fabricated and ready to install, and included rounded-end, glazed windows as design components which aid visibility and complement the overall look and feel of the booths. A larger, fee booth of the same design, incorporates a comfortable restroom, and an office area. Capturing the Airstream look wasn’t easy, but B.I.G. specializes in truly custom fabrication-work that many pre-fab manufacturers would not attempt to undertake. B.I.G. welcomes manufacturing challenges, and has worked with myriad clients to fabricate unusual and inventive designs for special applications.
B.I.G. booths, shelters, and security command centers are tough, innovative, and enduring. They are easy to install, and are significantly sound. They provide a platform for creativity, security, and maximum flexibility.
Custom B.I.G. Guard Booths Grace Sony Pictures Complex
Sleek security booths at Sony’s Culver City studio complex make a high-tech, high-style design statement.
Los Angeles, CA – June 2013 – Working in tandem with the architects and facilities directors at Sony Pictures, B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. (www.bigbooth.com) created a range of custom guard booths that greet all comers. With exterior details reminiscent of the classic movie houses of yesteryear, the tailor-made features developed in this design were so numerous that Sony’s facilities directors selected the fabrication experts at B.I.G. to bring the designs to life. They knew that B.I.G. had the expertise to manufacture the booths to meet their exacting requirements.
From the stainless steel fascia with radius corners and detailed reveals, to the stainless steel window muntins, butt-glazed Solarban-60 insulated glass, scalloped upper fascia details and stainless steel sliding doors-these booths make the bold architectural statement a major entertainment powerhouse like Sony demands.
“Because we are experts at bringing the visions of architects, engineers, and designers to life, we knew we were the only booth company that could meet Sony’s exacting standards and we were pleased to create this unusual and inventive design.” said Vice President David King.
Additional features include: LED lighting, custom steel cabinets and laminate shelving, storage drawers with slide-out keyboard trays, roof mounted low-profile HVAC, industrial flooring, and wiring runs for data, communications, gate controls, cameras and other security devices. The unit has an Energy Star rated three-part roof membrane, and the finish is high-gloss polyurethane over a two-part epoxy primer. The finish is color- matched to meet Sony’s Dunn Edwards color selection.
About B.I.G. Enterprises:
Since 1963, B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. of California has engineered and manufactured a comprehensive line of high quality, high-end, prefabricated security and revenue control booths. Their state-of-the-art selection of pre-assembled buildings includes guardhouses, cashier booths, portable shelters, and a variety of custom-made kiosks.
Newest Prefab Building Technologies Skimp on Cost of Guard Shelters
Recent advances in technology have resulted in a new prefab guard booth that delivers high security and a welcoming profile without straining the budget. The portable booth can help save money without sacrificing security, from government buildings to high school campuses.
Los Angeles, CA. – The all new “Georgetown” guard booth or shelter reflects B.I.G. Enterprises’ (www.bigbooth.com) response to custom designed solutions for savings-conscious budgets that need to provide high security. As the first point of contact for visitors, “The Georgetown” is designed to enhance its surroundings while providing a high level of security that’s welcoming but not intimidating.
DWL Architectural Firm in Arizona has been recommending prefab structures to its clients for over 10 years. Most recently they recommended three to Arizona’s Alhambra High School in the final days of a multi-million dollar project when money was running out for traditional construction and the principal wanted to squeeze a state-of-the-art security booth for the main entrance, a ticket kiosk and a sky box for the athletic center with what little he had left. B.I.G.’s newest prefab technology allowed them to do it.
Alhambra High’s Principal Hoeffel summed it up: There’s pretty much only two ways to build out here: ‘stick and stucco’ or ‘brick and block.’ When you can’t afford either of those but still need a safe structure without sacrificing quality, looks and utility, prefab steel is the way to go. It met all our needs in a fraction of the time and toll that traditional construction would have taken.”
First impressions are important; so whether facilities want to welcome guests, sell tickets, or intimidate and deter criminals while allowing access to personnel and vendors, a booth is the place to start.
Prefab security booths save at tax time. Aside from the usual 25% cost savings of prefab over traditional construction, there can be significant tax advantages to mobile booths. Because B.I.G. booths can be completely relocated – moved in one piece, they are classified as “tangible property” of a company. As a result, the purchase price can be depreciated over seven years. Conventional construction, on the other hand, becomes a permanent addition to the building and is classified as “real property” with a 39-year depreciable life. This difference in depreciation significantly reduces the total project cost and considerably improves the bottom line.
One former Marine with the rank of Sergeant of the Guard offered the following thoughts on B.I.G.’s newest prefab guard booth: “You could look at the Georgetown prefab booth as a huge overall savings on your security budget. Because of its overall utility, it’s the difference between having to pay one person or an entire force.”
B.I.G. Security Booth Installation Helps Safeguard Petroleum Facility
Tough, custom guard booth design manufactured for major oil refinery combines superior visibility with plug-and-play convenience.
When one of the world’s largest oil companies needed a custom guard station with all of the extras at an excep- tional price point, they commissioned B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc.(www.bigbooth.com) to fabricate it. The resulting model named The Slope-Front Trooper incorporates large, outward sloping windows on the vehicle approach ends, both entry and exit. These window panels were expressly designed to allow security personnel inside the booth to have a better view of the trucks and other vehicles that traverse the active facility – a dis- tinct advantage. Plus, The Slope-Front Trooper looks great – sleek, yet all business.
Guard booths are a first line of defense, the linchpin in most perimeter-hardening strategies. Energy assets form part of any nation’s critical infrastructure. Oil refineries, natural gas, and nuclear facilities need uncompromising guard booths that don’t sacrifice architectural integrity, design flexibility, or superior ergonomics. In addition, decision-makers seek to manage costs by considering component strength, and finish longevity.
The Slope-Front Trooper does it all, with the plug-and-play convenience of a pre-fabricated booth that is ready to function when it arrives on-site. The tough, ballistics-resistant exterior includes distinctive roof overhangs and special recessed security lighting. Since the booth must function in a variety of harsh climatic conditions, it is finished with B.I.G.’s catalyzed, two-component polyurethane topcoat which is fade, impact, and abrasion resistant. The coating also stands up to chemical and UV exposure.
The interior of the booth is flexible, and configuration-friendly, arriving complete with junction boxes and conduit. The booth can accommodate the extensive electrical infrastructure needed to support security, communications, and surveillance equipment. Pre-wiring makes installation a snap. All B.I.G. booths are UL approved and manufactured in strict compliance with NEC and UBC specifications.
“Our guard shelters meet the most exacting demands of regulatory agencies, security directors, and facilities managers. But it’s not enough for guard booths to simply function as required. The booths must also be considered from an architectural and aesthetic standpoint; they deter potential threats, but also act as visual statements, defining the image of the facility.” said Vice President David King
About B.I.G. Enterprises:
Since 1963, B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. of California has engineered and manufactured a comprehensive line of high quality, high-end, prefabricated security and revenue control booths. Their state-of-the-art selection of pre-assembled buildings includes guardhouses, cashier booths, portable shelters, and a variety of custom-made kiosks.
School’s Students And Faculty Are More Secure
As B.I.G. Enterprises’ newest enclosure enhances the beauty and effectiveness of St. Mary’s perimeter security
B.I.G. Enterprises’ prefabricated Security Guard Booths are manufactured for the ever-growing security demands of our nation’s educational institutions.
Los Angeles, CA – B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc. (www.bigbooth.com) prefabricated Security Guard Booths are manufactured for the ever-growing Security demand at our Educational Institutions—this one for a private school named St Mary’s. The National Center for Education Statistics most recently available data reported 28 homicides in United States’ schools from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.
Access control is a fundamental element of Security and B.I.G.’s prefabricated Security Guard Booths provide a secure location for your security guards and have proven to be a visual deterrent for would be attackers. For more than 50 years B.I.G.’s line of products has been the industry “gold standard” and almost every bullet proof booth, revenue control booth, portable guard house, portable guard booth or attendant booth design that you see today was first introduced into the prefabricated market by B.I.G. Enterprises, Inc™.
This featured unit recently manufactured for a K-8th grade private school complements the architecture of the campus and is positioned at the entry to the campus offering a valuable Security presence. These prefab units are made to all state codes including the latest energy code and ship complete as a one-piece unit ready for easy installation.
Booths include all galvanized steel construction, structurally designed roofing system for longevity with a coating that offers a solar reflective index of 95 or greater.
B.I.G.’s exclusive commercial steel framed and top hung transaction windows are backed by a 30-year warranty on the roller track system. The dual pane insulating glass throughout is tinted and has a Low-E coating.
These booths feature interior and exterior LED lights, interior and exterior type 340 stainless steel shelves with # 4 finish, energy star rated HVAC, convenience outlets and data & communication J-Boxes, galvanized steel plate floor covered with B.I.G.’s exclusive polyvinyl chloride interlocking tiles and 4” tall base cove, and to finish it off, a high solids polyurethane paint finish over a two-part polyurethane primer. The unit also has architectural galvanized steel panels that create horizontal & vertical reveals.
B.I.G. Enterprises manufacturers the highest quality standard or architectural buildings to meet the demand “On Time & On Budget”. For further information, call Dave King, 800-669-1449 or email dking@bigbooth.com
About B.I.G. Enterprises:
For over 50 years, engineers and decision-makers from hundreds of transportation, chemical, agricultural, manufacturing, university, and corporate facilities have trusted B.I.G. Enterprises to produce exceptional products and designs to meet the exacting requirements of today’s corporate and industrial security environment.
Utilizing a proprietary “Critical Span” manufacturing technique that increases convenience and strength in prefabricated structures, the B.I.G. team has booths protecting our nation’s capital, nuclear power plants, international airports, colleges, universities, military bases, amusement parks and corporate offices.