Owner: Detroit Water & Sewerage Department Architect: BEI Associates, Inc. Security Design: Rhodes & Associates Construction Value: $3,500,000 Security Design Value: $78,000 Project Completion: Feb, 2002 Project Manager: Brian Rhodes
Rhodes & Associates designed Security System Improvements at the Waste Water Treatment Plant
Detroit Waste Water Treatment Plant Site
The improvements included CCTV (both fixed cameras and P/T/Z cameras), network video recorders sized to store 28 days of video data from all cameras, including all recorded alarm events.
an access control system featuring intelligent system controllers
reader interface modules
alarm input modules
alarm output modules
proximity card readers
electric door strikes
biased magnetic door contacts
biased magnetic overhead door contacts
request to exit devices
glass breakage detectors
passive infrared motion detectors
vehicle access pedestal equipment
battery backed UPS
security equipment enclosures and camera equipment enclosures
Rhodes & Associates provided design of the security control room at the plant and integrated the Plant Security System into DWSD’s existing comprehensive security system.
New video monitoring and recording equipment was installed at the New Administration Building Security Office, the Main Site Guard House and the new Copeland Avenue Guard House to allow security officers to access video cameras strategically located throughout the WWTP and to access digitally recorded video images of security incidents that have been recorded.
New access control gates with Ingress/Egress Gate Control Pedestals that incorporates Access Control and Intercom assessment were installed at the Main Site Guard House and the new Copeland Avenue Guard House.
Personnel badges can be encoded by DWSD to allow controlled access to the WWTP Site and restricted areas within the WWTP Site.
A new Site Perimeter Fence Intrusion Detection System with video verification of alarms was designed and incorporated into the Plant Security System.
Security components from other projects including PC-740, PC-713, DWSD-745, DWP-1074 and DWP-1021 were incorporated into the new plant security system.
