Shopping Centres
An EcoShield is engineered planting that absorbs the pressure wave from a bomb blast, so less of it reaches the people on the other side. In a shopping centre it stands inside, on the mall, where your crowds are densest and nobody has been searched on the way in.
What an EcoShield does at a shopping centre
An EcoShield brings protection into the busiest parts of your mall in the form of planting. It stands where the crowds are densest, beside the seating, along the atrium and through the food court. If a device goes off, it absorbs the overpressure and reduces the number of people hurt. It is allowed to stand there because it looks like a garden.
Where it goes in a centre
It goes where people stop. The seating clusters, the food court, the atrium floor where the promotions and the Christmas queue form, the concourse outside your anchor stores. The planted sections are broken by gaps on the lines people already walk, and they are kept clear of escape routes and of the widths your fire strategy depends on. Sightlines from the management desk and the cameras are agreed with your team before anything is specified, and so is the light, because the planting has to suit the light it will actually get under your roof. Outside the doors comes second. If your drop-off holds a crowd before opening, an EcoShield belongs there too.
Protection beyond your bollards, where shoppers gather
Your bollards stop a vehicle reaching the doors, and your security team and cameras watch over the malls. The shoppers gathered in the food court, around the seating and across the atrium are well inside the building, past every vehicle barrier you have. An EcoShield gives the busiest floors physical protection of their own.
It is a planted barrier with an engineered structure inside, designed for the threat of a bomb carried in by a person. It absorbs blast energy, so less of the pressure wave reaches the people behind it. It sits beside the seating and through the atrium and food court, so your security team works exactly as it does now, and it gives you a physical measure to record in your Martyn's Law documentation.
Shoppers see planting. The centre still feels like somewhere people choose to spend an afternoon, without a hint that anyone is expecting trouble.
Where it sits alongside what you have
Your control room, your cameras and your security team carry on as they are. Bollards on the carriageway stay. Conventional hardening suits the service yard and the goods entrance, where nobody is looking. An EcoShield takes the trading floor, because that is the one part of your centre where protection has to look like something else before it is allowed in.
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