City Infrastructrre

The district is located on the Western side of the famed Sheik Zayed Road in Dubai. The district was part of Sheik Mohammad’s vision to attract arms of all of the world’s major financial houses to have operations in Dubai. The centre piece of this was the Gateway building which Kerran and Brad were
responsible for the complete security design and construction.

The district is some 1.5 Kilometers long extending from the Gateway complex to the Finance Centre Road. The project includes a major tunnel that enables servicing the prime elements of the district. The security solution was underpinned by a thorough risk/threat assessment that considered the Government of Dubai’s criteria of the safety and security of all of those who would live and work within the District. This particularly applied to the international expatriates.

The project also required integration major parking facilities below the Dubai International Financial centre as well as into the Dubai MRT that runs along the Western side of Sheik Zayed Road.

Westrail*
Whilst employed at CCD Australia, Joe led the Security division and assisted Westrail in the initial Master Planning of the first CCTV rollout to suburban railway stations in Perth, Western Australia. This initially included the use of local DVR’s at stations with the future upgrade path providing the expansion to new networking of all stations to a centralised monitoring station in Perth Central. This initial works included the design of CCTV solutions for the new Northern links within the Station design with Architects to provide an effective surveillance operation to monitor along platforms, pedestrian link bridges, ticket machines and other vulnerable locations identified through our close workings within the many design team members.

This Master Plan laid the foundations for what is today a very successful and effective CCTV operation managed by Westrail across all suburban stations. The master plan has been further developed to include the latest digital storage and distribution via fibre optic cabling to provide both emergency voice call and CCTV coverage at all stations, This is linked to Perth Central to activate a planned response via Westrail’s Transit Security Services.

Palm Island - Dubai*
Kerran was commissioned to undertake the development of a safety and security strategy for the Iconic Palm Island in Dubai. The Island which includes a combination of hotel/resorts, shopping and entertainment complexes, a major marina, apartment buildings and private residences. The Island will have a population of up to 125,000 people who will live and work on the island.

The authority responsible for management of the Island required a long term strategy that would draw together all of the services of the Government agencies that will service the facility in liaison with the Islands global service provider.

The safety and security strategy addressed the provisions of technology to assist in the management of many facets of the islands safety, security and operations. The technology included a comprehensive security management system integrated with a closed circuit television both of which will have the capability to be deployed over the complete island, and be interfaced with any of the separate islands facilities security solutions back to a central command location that will monitor the global security health of the facility.

The technology is also interfaced with the islands engineering infrastructure to optimise the vision available from the safety and security solution.

The technology is also interfaced with a number of other short and long range surveillance systems that consider threats from both land and sea, including the security management of the bridge connecting the trunk to the crown of the palm and the island monorail.

The strategy was required to consider the phased population build up as the various facilities and building complexes are progressively completed on the island over the decade after the island was opened for use.