Security Design Engineering

A risk-led approach to built environments

Control Risks is one of the world’s leading providers of security risk management and design solutions. We have decades of experience delivering security consulting services for projects around the world including luxury residential complexes, hotels, high rise towers, mixed-use developments, and critical infrastructure.

These assets face a range of threats – societal, technological, environmental, corruption, political and security. Control Risks can provide support from conceptualisation to the day-to-day running of your project.

From market insights to compliance, security and resilience programmes, and responding to critical business issues, our experts have worked with some of the largest global companies in the real estate, built environment and infrastructure fields.

Manage risks, build resilience

At Control Risks we bring a unique, integrated approach to projects in challenging and complex environments. We work with investors, advisors, developers, project managers, designers, engineers, infrastructure owners and operators, and occupiers to identify and mitigate physical and digital vulnerabilities through early assessment, improving the security and resilience of your assets.

All our designs are threat-based and risk-commensurate. We use our own risk consulting team to design systems that are risk based and outcome focussed, ensuring they are operationally and economically efficient.

Our approach to security design engineering

Control Risks integrates with all the activities and design stages of your project. Our design consulting services are aligned with the RIBA plan of work stages. We take an integrated approach to protecting our clients’ important assets in challenging and complex environments. This approach provides multiple ‘layers’ of security designed and developed by Control Risks and facilitated by the early assessment of security risks.

	Step 1: Security strategy and concept design Conduct a familiarisation review of the project drawings and designs Undertake a threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment Develop the security strategy Develop the security concept design
	Step 2: Developed design and coordination Develop the security design as part of the developed design process Carry out design coordination with the design team
	Step 3: Technical design Develop the detail of the security design Produce technical specifications and drawings
	Step 4: Pre-construction tender support Support the selection and appointment of a security installation contractor
	Step 5: Construction support Support the supervision of security installation to ensure compliance with the specification, legislation, codes of practice and good working practices
	Step 6: Completion Review and assess the installed security measures during the final work stage of the fit-out process

Key challenges: understanding the political, security, regulatory and governance, environmental and societal landscapes

Control Risks approach: strategic risk assessment and resilience planning; ESG strategy development and implementation, and compliance and anti-corruption strategies

Key challenges: compliance exposure due to regional and international regulation; loss of critical information; building investor confidence

Control Risks approach: business intelligence and risk mitigation through stakeholder analysis; cyber risk consulting; transaction and asset due diligence

Key challenges: integration of risk mitigation measures to help build resilience through the entire project life cycle

Control Risks approach: defining security standards; actionable advice on project risk mitigation, business continuity and issues including supply chain resilience planning

Key challenges: optimum balance of physical, technical and procedural security and integration with human factors

Control Risks approach: developing risk-based, outcome-focussed security design solutions

Key challenges: quality of security build and installation, corruption, fraud, theft and labour unrest, and political interference

Control Risks approach: site supervision, quality assurance and security management support, on-going political, security and integrity risk monitoring

Key challenges: the threat of unrest, criminality, terrorism, anti-social behaviour and natural hazards, security governance and compliance

Control Risks approach: provision of turn-key integrated security services including crisis management; operational security support and audit

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