Today's security challenges require innovative, integrated solutions to meet both short- and long-term needs. The PB approach helps clients assess the most significant risks they face and focus on the infrastructure design and operations solutions most appropriate for them. PB is ready to meet today's security challenges, with all the skill and determination that have helped us and our clients adapt to changing realities over the past 118 years.

PB is fully equipped to help protect and defend vital infrastructure, both public and private. We understand the intricate requirements of security-related projects, from threat assessment to blast engineering to smart contingency planning. Our staff knows the underlying issues and threats associated with weapons of mass destruction—those designed to release chemical, biological, radiological agents as well as nuclear and conventional explosives. We have helped increase clients' preparedness through threat-focused assessments, blast analysis and design, consequence-management plans, and other security-related services. PB has a long history of involvement in security-related projects, including the development of strategic defense facilities, nuclear facilities, and national laboratories. And we've sharpened our capabilities even further by forming strategic alliances with selected firms that, like PB, are leaders in the industry.

PB offers security-related services to both private and public sector clients, including federal and state agencies responsible for protecting infrastructure, transportation authorities, and corporations that wish to protect their property. Our services span the following activities:

• Asset review and protection
• Blast resistant design
• Capital asset readiness and survivability
• Cargo/baggage screening facilities
• Consequence management
• Contingency planning
• Crisis prediction
• Criticality assessments
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Design and construction support of security improvements
• Disaster management
• Emergency response guidance
• Engineering design, analysis and project estimation
• Evacuation plans
• First responder training
• Force protection
• Grant development and preparation
• Incident response plans
• Infrastructure design and operations review
• Mitigation strategies and mitigation project development
• Physical security consulting
• Policy development and analysis
• Project and program management services
• Readiness assessment, proficiency standards, plans and procedures
• Regulatory/policy/plans requirement reviews
• Risk assessments
• Security, emergency and safety plans
• Security enhancements planning and design
• Security, law enforcement and emergency response and preparedness operations
• Threat scenario development and analysis
• Training program development and analysis
• Vulnerability and security assessments
• Wireless communications systems

For more information on our security capabilities, please contact Dick Madenburg (madenburg@pbworld.com).