Risk Assessment & Management
ARA provides comprehensive risk assessment services and tools to maximize physical and electronic security within the government and private industry, and works with organizations to develop thorough disaster management plans that ensure preparedness, effective response, and long-term and short-term recovery phases. ARA integrates proprietary modeling and industry-leading research to model and simulate risks associated with extreme events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, storm surge and coastal flooding for catastrophe risk management.
We provide plans for emergency operations centers that address emergency communications and identify the resources needed for all potential threats, including natural, technological, and man-made hazards. ARA professionals are experienced in providing the best value systems and solutions, from loss estimation assessments using state-of-the-art probabilistic analysis methods to blast consulting and protective design. Our long history of risk management allows us to solve our clients’ problems in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
ARA’s blast consulting and security engineering services include design, assessment, analysis, modeling, and large scale explosive testing which allows ARA to evaluate everything from building structure and facade response to air blast, effects of fragmentation, and human response to blast loads. Our professionals have vast experience in renovation and retrofit of existing buildings as well as the design of new structures intended to resist potential terrorist attack.
Our long history of risk management allows us to solve our clients’ problems in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
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