As the world becomes ever more interdependent, the exposure of organisations to the negative impact of events is becoming increasingly difficult to predict. Regulatory and commercial considerations are driving businesses to seek a more rigorous and holistic approach to managing their exposure. By integrating their risk management functions and systems, organisations can become truly resilient – sustainable, robust and efficient.
Arup provides resilience consulting for public and private sector clients worldwide; its strategic services assist clients to ensure the resilience of their entire business operations, as well as protecting their people and assets.
By drawing on the expertise of its internationally recognised specialists across the spectrum of security and risk management, Arup offers a comprehensive and cohesive service. By assisting clients with thorough analysis and assessment of their exposure, Arup can help them to choose optimum solutions for the effective management and mitigation of strategic, operational, personnel and asset-based risk. The firm's rigorous approach to threat and risk assessment provides the foundation for the deployment of its extensive experience and diverse skills to develop protective design measures for buildings and infrastructure.
By utilising wide-ranging real-world operational planning experience, together with protective asset design, Arup can implement bespoke security and risk management strategies for client businesses within any geographical or operational environment. Arup occupies a position at the cutting edge of technology, in its research, design and specification of solutions, as well as its innovative use of quantitative analysis. Ergo and SimGuard demonstrate Arup's commitment to innovative technology to solve complex challenges. Internal investment and Arup's strong links to academia and research institutions power these innovations.
Arup provides clients with a whole-life security and resilience consulting service, from concept, through design, to operations and maintenance, covering a broad range of capabilities:
Strategic risk
Whether exposure originates from natural hazards like earthquakes or the human-driven threat of political instability, Arup helps regional and global organisations to understand the risks to their people, assets and services and enables them to develop practical, cost-effective strategies to manage those risks in the long term.
Threat and risk
The built environment is subject to a range of security-related threats and risks. By assessing an organisation or development's exposure to these risks, Arup's specialists can help organisations to decide which risks to protect against, which to mitigate and which to accept, thereby enhancing resilience.
Technical risk assessment
Arup's specialists offer wide-ranging technical risk assessment and management services, providing advice and analysis to clients across all industry sectors. The firm's experts have experience across an array of areas, from safety protection on railways to accident risk management in construction.
Operational planning
Arup's informed analysis and practical experience help enterprises to understand the strategic value and potential brittleness of their business processes. The firm develops solutions to reduce the likelihood of a crisis and to minimise adverse impact on the business activities of clients.
Security engineering
Adopting a risk-led approach, Arup's world-leading security engineering team optimises the security and operability of facilities by using the most appropriate physical and electronic security measures to design and deliver safe and secure environments.
Geomatic services
Employing the latest technology to gather and exploit spatial data to construct analytic and representational models, Arup's geomatic capabilities can provide organisations with a range of solutions to challenging problems. Through the integration of 3D models and GIS tools, Arup can assist clients to improve their real-time situational awareness and decision-making processes in command and control situations. At reduced cost, these solutions enhance protection for critical infrastructure sites such as ports or power grids or for locations where a high level of security is required.
Counter-terrorism
Arup's counter-terrorism design team has a pre-eminent understanding of blast engineering and offers practical mitigation measures to provide resilience to the use of chemical and biological weapons in the built environment. Arup's counter-terrorism team includes experts in weapon delivery mechanisms, building and façade resilience, shelter protection, evacuation and invacuation strategies, hostile vehicle mitigation and CB vulnerability analysis.
Arup Security Consulting is approved by the UK Government to work routinely with protectively marked material.