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November/December 2014 • SECURITY TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE 17 www.SecurityInfoWatch.com atar Petroleum (QP) is a govern- ment-owned oil and gas conglom- erate. It has upstream (explora- tion, drilling, and production) and downstream (refining) operations for crude oil, natural gas, lique- fied natural gas and other refined products. Its Dukhan oil field can produce up to 335,000 barrels per day. QP has onshore crude oil reserves of 1,842 million barrels and onshore gas reserves of some 8 trillion cubic feet. Its two offshore production stations produced almost 90 million barrels of oil in 2008. Through partner- ships with such companies as ExxonMobil, Occi- dental and TOTAL, QP supplies oil and gas to North America, Asia, and Europe. Aon Global Risk Consulting|Security Con- sulting & Design (AGRC Security), a division of Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation, was selected by Qatar Petroleum and KEO Inter- national Consultants during construction to assist in the QP District Project, located in Doha Qatar. Aon provided both security consulting and design services and fire protection and life safety services to support the security program- ming for the project. QP District Project Background The QP District Project was initially intend- ed and designed as a massive mixed use retail environment; however, after the site's ground- breaking, the environment was changed from mixed use (retail, hotel, and apartment) to a corporate environment. The $3 billion greenfield project located in the West Bay of Doha, Qatar is one of the largest cor- porate campuses in the world, sprawling more than six million square feet, including a five-star hotel, nine prominent high-rise towers comprised of 16 to 52 stories each, a parking garage, under- ground parking for 6,000 cars, a central utility plant, an auditorium, and three auto-courts, serv- ing three towers each. The auto-court/round- about provides vehicular access ramps that lead to a multi-level parking garage which is below the entire complex. At its construction peak, 4,000 workers and 17 tower cranes supported the fast- paced, 42-month construction project which is scheduled to conclude in Q1 2015. The security systems design completed by AGRC Security was equally immense, consisting of 1,644 fixed and 62 pan-tilt-zoom IP-enabled Pelco cameras that were strategically located to support situational awareness. Fiber optic cabling was used for exterior cameras to pre- clude the introduction of power surges, ground loop and sneaker currents onto the shared computer network. Excluding doors that are equipped with HID Global access control read- ers, the site has 2,836 standard, high-security and roll-up presence/position sensors and 500- plus duress buttons. Access control reader com- partmentalization added another 2,510 pres- ence sensors along with HID multi-technology access control readers, request-to exit devices, and associated door hardware, which included 429 delayed egress doors to meet life safety code requirements. The entire access system central- izes onto the Honeywell Pro-Watch Security Management System, which is distributed via 304 PW6 Honeywell controllers. Pedestrian-grade access is initially controlled by 27 X-ray and magnetometer machines, which were planned into the architecture for high- threat concerns. These devices were staged in front of 46 optical turnstiles that were strategi- cally spread across the campus and specifically located at pedestrian entry points for each of the nine towers, the free-standing parking garage, and the hotel entry near the auditorium. Turn- stiles located at tower entries integrate into the elevator destination dispatch system to provide a seamless process from the turnstile to the iden- tification of the correct elevator to access. Eleva- tor optical turnstiles were specified to operate in both a barrier and barrier free mode with the anticipation that the barriers would primarily be used during evening hours, allowing for a more transparent visitor/employee entry experience. A Honeywell visitor authentication/manage- ment system located at each of the 10 guard sta- tions and 15 self-enroll kiosks will be located throughout the site and enable QP security to know who is authorized to visit the site. Once approved, visitors will use a barcode reader to authenticate access at the turnstile, permitting access to the passenger elevators. Each passen- ger elevator has an emergency intercom which is routed via elevator traveling cable and converted via an encoder to IP and pushed onto the comput- er network. The service elevators will contain 20 access control readers with floor tracking. Service key monitoring will alert security immediately when the access control reader is bypassed. Access will be controlled and authorized out- side the facility by a select number of guard booths, which will have primary control over 19 operable anti-vehicular arresting barriers, six gate operators, 19 traffic lights and 60-plus vehicular presence detectors. Vehicular access shall be separately authenticated by 16 long- range Wiegand outputted access control read- ers and over 5,000-plus active tags for the anticipated number of employees and contrac- tors that will utilize the facility daily. Public parking shall be equipped with 40 IP-enabled The $3 billion greenfield project located in the West Bay of Doha, Qatar is one of the largest corporate campuses in the world, sprawling more than six million square feet. Q