- Jul 12, 2018
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| TYPE | Infrastructure |
| COUNTRY | Polaris Banking PB/A/005 General Reserve |
| PROJECT | Dutch General Intelligence & Security Service |
| PROJECT COST | 500,000,000.00 |
| COMPLETION DATE | 06/05/2020 |
| PROJECT INFORMATION | CONTEXT The Dutch headquarters for their General Intelligence & Security Service will be a state of the art facility with exceptional security, underground parking, an abundance of secure office space, servers, and even an armory. From this headquarters, Dutch Intelligence will be able to do everything from planning covert missions to remotely ensuring their execution. The facility will be both open enough, and secure enough, to allow for a wide-range of intelligence-related business to take place while also allowing it to remain largely isolated from the outside world. https://modernnations.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F0%2F01%2FGebouw_AIVD_Zoetermeer.jpeg&hash=2694c647b66067431759a3211dcd3a9c LOCATION The location for the Security Service will be in Zoetermeer, which is roughly between The Hague and Rotterdam. The exact address is: Europaweg 4, Zoetermeer Kingdom of The Netherlands FACILITY DESCRIPTION This very large, 5-story facility has an exceptional amount of room for its employees and agents to conduct their business. The outside of the building is surrounded by a six-foot high, two-foot thick cement barrier which also extends three feet into the earth as well. The occasional door that fits into these reinforced cement walls is 4-inch thick stainless-steel. The doors have various lock mechanisms to ensure that they cannot simply be opened with a crowbar, small explosive device, or firearm. Security outposts are located within view of all of these exterior wall-doors. The exterior windows of the building are made from non-shatter, bullet-resistant glass which could sustain a direct hit from a rocket propelled grenade. These same windows also prevent outsiders from being able to listen in on to conversations going on in the inside. These exterior windows can either be clear, or become frosted, by the flip of a switch using technology known as "privacy smart glass." The roof of the building is flat, allowing building-security to have a birds-eye view of the entire facility and its grounds, as well as patrolling the top of the building as well. There are a number of secure roof-top entrances to the building which require a key-code and ID-card swipe for entry. These doors are windowless and lead-lined, and are secured with various manual and automatic locks which require someone to be on both sides of one of these doors to gain access. Europaweg 4 has enough interior room for 2500 employees. There are also ten different interrogation rooms, three holding cells located in the basement, and an abundance of secure conference rooms. An integrated computer network exists throughout the structure which is not connected to the world wide web and has various technical aspects in place to ensure that Dutch security analysts, who are properly trained, can monitor the network in the event that any malicious software is introduced to the secure computer network. Water and electricity are provided by the City of Zoetermeer, however there are a number of back-up generators discretely located on different parts of the roof that can keep the facility operating for about 24 hours, or even longer if power is being used sparingly. Anyone who enters the building, from janitors to the Prime Minister, must have a facility-issued identification card to be able to successfully navigate the building. Visitor cards can be issued, however they are made as-needed on-site, and are of course temporary. Their random-access codes expire after a certain period of time, meaning that long-term guests or new employees will need designated ID cards made for them. This allows building-security to track where everyone in the building has been, including what floors (and sometimes even what rooms) they have gained access to. Secure rooms that not even all permanent employees have access to include places designated for building-security, server rooms, analyst rooms, and offices that are designated for high officials or managers. The building also has a large range of CCTV cameras on the outside and inside of it to allow security to access virtually any part of the building at any time. The only exception to this are the restrooms, however all restrooms have cameras located outside of them so that it can be seen who has entered and left them. There is underground parking located in a corner of the facility. While this may be a minor inconvenience for those who work on the other side of the facility, it prevents any kind of attack on the facility where explosives are somehow brought into the parking facility and detonated under the building. The underground parking can accommodate one-thousand vehicles. Access to it is guarded by security and has measures in place to ensure that anyone who forced their way in would have their tires destroyed and their vehicle immobilized. |
| PRIVATE / ENCRYPTED | Yes |
