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Property owners are investing substantially more money to increase the security level in their buildings, says John Combs, president of U.S. Property Services at Insignia/ESG in Newport Beach, Calif. In fact, the security budgets at Insignia/ESG have doubled in the past 12 months as the company beefs up all aspects of building security from enhanced camera surveillance to industrial X-ray machines that scan mail and packages.

Building owners and managers also face a significant challenge when it comes to monitoring the building's daily traffic. It is not unusual for a high-rise office building in Manhattan, for example, to receive 1,700 to 2,000 visitors per day, says Richard Ruben, founder and chairman of Workspeed Inc., a provider of Web-based building management software.

Prior to 9-11, check-in systems for visitors were often limited to a sign-in sheet in the building lobby. Now office buildings are introducing systems to control or monitor who is in the building, when they arrived, when they left and who invited them.

For more information on security of office buildings, see the entire article "Battening Down The Hatches" in the June issue of National Real Estate Investor (www.nreionline.com, a sister magazine of Access Control & Security Systems.

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