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Nominations for the 2026 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award for Security Design Project of the Year are now open. The award will recognize projects that went live between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. The Elliot A. Boxerbaum Memorial Award will be presented to a consulting or engineering company which designed and specified a qualified and completed security design project. It will recognize collaboration, design excellence, uniqueness, creativity, and administration factors which contributed to a highly successful security project.
The presentation will occur at the next CONSULT Technical Security Symposium
All valid applicants will have registration fees waived for the next CONSULT. Award project finalists and designers will be featured in Security magazine.
We congratulate Bala Consulting Engineers and Matt Ezold for their winning submission for the 2025 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award on 900 & 801 Church in Nashville, TN.
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The Ed Chandler Security Innovation Award recognizes innovation emanating from the security consulting community. That innovation may be a process, service offering, or unique application of technology or product. This about introducing novel ideas, methods, or devices, and may be incremental improvement or radical breakthrough. Ultimately, innovation drives progress and change by addressing needs, solving problems, and creating new opportunities. Security-specific design companies, low-voltage system design companies, Architectural and Engineering, and MEP firms all qualify. Companies are invited to apply for this year's award, with innovations introduced July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.
We congratulate ADRM for winning the inaugural 2025 Ed Chandler Security Innovation Award for the DEFENDER Security Management Platform.
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The IC-EDGE™ Video Entry Starter Kit addresses the fundamental need for intelligible audio and video, all in one easy-to-install system. With an innovative speaker design and noise cancelling technology, the Video Entry Starter Kit is equipped to handle any dynamic noise environment.
Overtur™ is Allegion's digital environment for simplifying design, specification and management of door openings, including access control, between Divisions 8 and 28. It serves as a central hub of access control hardware information that allows team members to collaborate on a project in a single platform.
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Mrs. Chandler, CPP, CEO of Security By Design, Inc. manages a team of security professionals who perform vulnerability analyses, feasibility studies, conducts training programs, and do detailed designs for the integration of systems for physical security, fire and data center failure mode monitoring. Lorna also acts as a security consultant, providing her years of expertise to governmental and commercial clients.
Mrs. Chandler spent thirteen years with Chevron Corporation where she gained experience in the design and specification of software, quality assurance, control procedures, and physical security issues in the areas of credit, accounting, lock-box banking, credit card processing, data processing and public relations. She has supervised multi-shift operations dealing with computerized sorting equipment and microfilm production. Lorna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, University of California, Irvine and has been active within the security industry since 1974. She is a member of American Society for Industrial Security and earned her CPP in 1986.
Phone: +1 925-609-1000
Email: Lorna_Chandler@sbd.us
Linked-In: www.linkedin.com/pub/lorna-chandler/0/711/502
Certifications: CPP
The security consultant is a vital link between a building or facility’s requirement for security and the successful installation of a system to meet that requirement. From risk assessment to security audit to system design to the details of implementation and practice, it is the security consultant who identifies, then turns requirement into reality. SecuritySpecifiers allows a variety of constituencies – OEM's, integrators, facility owners and operators, end-users, and architectural firms – to access an up-to-date listing of companies and individuals skilled in the design and specification of physical security systems.
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