Physical Security Enginnering

Understanding the Modern Threat Landscape

In an era defined by rapidly evolving security challenges, organisations face an increasingly complex landscape of threats. Terrorism, organised crime, opportunistic violence, and emerging lone‑actor attacks continue to reshape the risk environment in New Zealand and globally. As methods of attack grow more sophisticated, so too must the strategies designed to counter them. Redco Security Engineering provides clients with confidence and clarity through innovative, proportionate, and technically robust security solutions tailored to contemporary risks.

Urban growth, increased population density, and the changing nature of criminal behaviour have intensified security pressures worldwide. Traditional crime has evolved, and the rise of ideologically motivated individuals and lone‑actor violence has created new vulnerabilities. Redco Security Engineering helps clients navigate these challenges by identifying risks early, designing out vulnerabilities, and implementing practical, evidence‑based mitigation strategies.

Comprehensive Security Expertise

Our team specialises in the full spectrum of physical security risk management, technical security design, and information resilience. We bring extensive experience supporting clients who require integrated, multi‑disciplinary design solutions.

Specialist Anti‑Terrorism and HVM Services

We provide advanced anti‑terrorism consultancy for the protection of crowded places and critical infrastructure. Our services include:

Local context and threat methodology analysis
Blast effect modelling and structural response assessments
Vehicle Dynamics Assessment (VDA) to determine realistic approach speeds, angles, and impact conditions
Hostile Vehicle Mitigation engineering, including barrier specification, product performance evaluation, and creative landscape‑integrated solutions

Our HVM design extends beyond traditional bollards, incorporating terrain, street furniture, and architectural features to deliver effective, unobtrusive protection. These same principles are applied to mitigate ram‑raid attacks, an increasingly common threat to commercial premises.

Physical Security and Blast Engineering

Physical security design focuses on delaying, deterring, or defeating attacks through enhanced structural elements, blast‑resistant glazing, controlled standoff distances, and integrated screening measures. By analysing blast waves and their interaction with buildings, we simulate explosive events to understand their effects on columns, beams, slabs, façades, and glazing systems.

We collaborate with façade specialists to minimise the consequences of explosive incidents, offering expertise in disproportionate collapse prevention and detailed blast‑structure interaction modelling. Our team can deliver rapid assessments in response to heightened threat levels or comprehensive analyses to support full design integration.

Design Integration and Retrofit Solutions

The most effective security outcomes are achieved when protective measures are incorporated early in the design process, enabling cost‑efficient and architecturally sympathetic solutions. However, when required, we also provide retrofit options to elevate existing buildings to appropriate security standards.

We work closely with building owners, architects, developers, and security managers to ensure people, assets, and critical operations are protected from harm. Our approach aligns with internationally recognised risk management standards and is adaptable to individual sites, precincts, or large‑scale masterplans.

Who Needs to Act?

The responsibility for the safety of the population of New Zealand goes well beyond the remit on the national government. Any person or business responsible for the operation of a facility – whether a component of national infrastructure or a private enterprise.

Building owners, architects, developers, and security managers need to work with security engineering specialists to ensure people, assets, and critical operations are protected from harm.

We need to take an internationally recognised approach to risk management which is adaptable to individual sites, precincts, or large‑scale masterplans.