Randy Atlas Phd FAIA CPP CPTED

Randy Atlas is America’s only architect / criminologist. Atlas received his Doctorate of Criminology from Florida State University, a Masters in Architecture from the University of Illinois, and a Bachelor of Criminal Justice degree from University of South Florida. Atlas is president of Atlas Safety & Security Design Inc., based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a registered architect in Florida, awarded AIA Fellowship, nationally accredited with National Council Architectural Registration Board (N.C.A.R.B.), and a newly elevated Fellowship Status member of the American Institute of Architects. Dr. Atlas is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) from the American Society of Industrial Security, and past chairman of the ASIS Security Architecture and Engineering Council, and an appointed member of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Premises Security Committee, which developed the new NFPA 730/ 731 premises security standards and guidelines. Atlas is a committee member of the American Society Of Testing Materials (ASTM) F33 on Corrections and Detention Facilities and the ASTM E54 Homeland Security Committee. He is a member of the Florida CPTED Design Out Crime Association, the International CPTED Association, a member of the International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners, and the International Association of Counterterrorism and Security Professionals. Dr. Atlas is a nationally recognized trainer and author on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) for the National Crime Prevention Institute (NCPI), which is part of the University of Louisville. He has conducted over 200 workshops and seminars on CPTED and Critical Infrastructure Protection around the world and has uniquely combined the fields of architecture, security, and criminology. Dr. Atlas serves as an adjunct professor in architecture and criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University College of Architecture and teaches one of the few CPTED classes on-line E-Learning in the world to architecture, urban planning, and criminal justice students. Atlas is a master CPTED instructor trainer with NCPI, AIA, and ASIS International. He is a practitioner and designs functionally integrated security design systems using the CPTED methodology in all building/ facility types including transportation, schools, universities, multi-family housing, and criminal justice facilities and anti-terrorism and critical infrastructure. Dr. Atlas has conducted risk assessments on high-rise office buildings, commercial plants, schools and universities, large public venues, and multi-family mixed use residential environments. Critical infrastructure protection is a vital part of all of these studies conducted and Atlas has conducted Homeland Security Vulnerability Assessments on seaports, and government buildings as well. Atlas is a regular contributor to the Security Management Magazine, Protection of Assets Manual, Access Control Magazine, Security Technology and Design Magazine. Dr. Atlas has served as an expert witness on premises liability cases and adequacy of security in hundreds of litigation cases. His writings and research have often set the standard of care that is used in the courts today. Atlas authored the book 21st Century Security and CPTED 2nd Edition, 2013. For more information go to http://www.cpted-security.com Dr. Atlas brings a unique and multi-disciplinary holistic approach to crime prevention and security design. His experience allows him to focus on what is causing the problems or loss, before immediately jumping into problem solving, as typically done by other consultants with technological solutions. Often many of the solutions that Dr. Atlas develops are operational and managerial, which have little or no capital improvement costs. Only when there is no other mitigation measures possible does Dr. Atlas develop architectural and technological solutions to the risks, threats and vulnerabilities to protect the facility assets.