Last week the design team sat down with campus police, project team members and security experts to talk about access for the building. We have now officially entered into the detail phase of the project and oh my goodness, was this ever detail. No color drawings to review, no furniture to dream about, no landscape plans to ponder - this 4-hour meeting was a door by door discussion with campus police, Physical Plant, security consultants and project consultants.
We discussed card access versus keys, the merits of close circuit monitors against security cameras, what kind of security system should the textile collection storage have, how the preschool parents enter the building, if a stairway door should be locked from the inside or outside, and so much more.
Now that the semester has started I hear the parade of students getting their keys from Jonie. Every fall she cheerfully assigns more than 100 keys to incoming freshman, grad students and new lecturers. Hang in there Jonie, in a few short years we will be on a card access system!
