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Vulnerability Assessment of The Biltmore Estate

Natural surveillance

To protect the belonging of all the household in the estate, there must be surveillance at all times. Surveillance tends to ensure that any person committing any offence is observed. Surveillance helps observe and identify any person going against the laws of the estate (Shah et al. 2018).

Lighting the area.

Lighting ensures that any criminal in the area is eliminated. No person would tend to steal or garb any person’s belongings when they are being observed. Assessment on the pathways, parking areas and more so around the houses of each resident is important so as to ensure safety.

Guards and CCTV’s

The guards in the estate makes sure to observe and identify any person passing through the gate to their residence. The CCTVs as well are important as they ensure to capture any person who passes through the gate and their destination. This will guarantee the security of the estate.

Landscaping of the estate.

The estate should be designed in a way that one sees to the far end. No areas that can be used to hide such as long and unkempt grass, fences or shrubs. Trees be trimmed to ensure visibility all over the estate and the landscape be clear

Territorial reinforcement

Each person in the estate wants to feel the complete ownership of the area they live in. To protect and defend what they owe in the area reinforces the act of territoriality. The management of the estate needs to implement techniques that will help all the residents feel the territoriality of the areas they live in (Barreca, Curto & Rolando, 2017).

Marking boundaries

Making marks over all houses would better help the residents identify and know what they owe. They will be able to protect what belongs to them. Make marks over all the entry points, the exit points, around the houses and more so marking the houses by numbers.

Fencing

Complete ownership is felt when one is one is in a position to control everything taking place in their compound. Fencing will help secure the houses and as well ensure that the residents own everything in their compound.

Signage

All collective signatures of each household would show complete ownership. Giving them legal documents to sign and show them that the assets belong to them would ensure territorial reinforcement

Access control

Controlling the people in the area would ensure they access the right areas and be able to watch and control them. Restricting access in to different important and risky areas would help reduce vulnerability (Shah et al. 2018).

Parking area

Parking areas should be identified through the class of the people that are allowed. Marked areas where employees, residents, or visitors should park. This would help control vulnerability such as theft of vehicles or destruction of the vehicles by people.

Define all entry and exit points

Entry points should be purposely be used to enter the areas that people want to go. This would make it easy to control the number of people as compared to when they use the same area as the entry and exit point.

Fire access

In case there is fire emergency, enough measure should be kept to control the number of people and to prevent risks that are fire related. This could be controlled by labelling all the fire exit points, fire assembly and labelling the fire alarms and fire extinguishers in the estate.

Maintenance

A well-maintained compound and residency will attract people and more so prof that the area is owned. As well, risks related to non-maintained environment such as harmful animals hiding in the environment could be avoided (Shah et al. 2018).

Trashing the waste

Trash should be emptied in a well-built bin. Some which are decomposable be decomposed in an area where they will cause no harm to the people and the other be thrown in the incinerator where they can be burnt. This will ensure safety of the estate.

Sewage carriers.

Ensure no sewage is left leaking on the compound. Well maintained pipes to carry the swage and empty them properly should be used. Ensure no children are allowed to play near the area.

Maintain grass, and landscape

Unmaintained environment is an area for harmful and hazardous animals to hide. Animals such as snake would hide in tall grasses and trees. Ensure that the estate is clean, grass kept short and all trees in the area are trimmed. As well as any natural fence that could be in the area.

References

Shah, M. F., Kegyes-B, O. K., Ray, R. P., Ahmed, A., & Al-ghamadi, A. (2018). Vulnerability assessment of residential buildings in Jeddah: A methodological proposal. International Journal, 14(44), 134-141.

Barreca, A., Curto, R., & Rolando, D. (2017). Assessing social and territorial vulnerability on real estate submarkets. Buildings, 7(4), 94. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/7/4/94