Balancing Security with Tenant Privacy

"The Elliot A. Boxerbaum award recognizes collaboration, ingenuity and excellence in security design within the consulting community. The award - put on by SecuritySpecifiers, at its annual CONSULT event for the physical security industry specifically for companies engaged in security engineering and design, and co-sponsored by Security magazine - recognizes collaboration, design excellence, uniqueness, creativity and administration factors that contributed to a highly successful security project."

"The award is named for the late Elliot Boxerbaum, former President and Founder of Security Risk Management Consultants, Inc., who passed away in 2014 from ALS. Matthew Ezold, Bala Consulting Engineers Project Manager and Vice President of Digital Planning, accepted the award during a ceremony on October 4 at the 2025 CONSULT event in Denver, Colorado. Ezold also shares the design process for this multi-year project which took place between 2020 and 2024, when both buildings were fully integrated."

"The client previously managed a variety of security systems that made it difficult to fully visualize the entire property. Bala began by focusing on the smarthome aspect, as that would determine which security technologies could be utilized. "We presented multiple options for tenant access and put together storyboards for each user type in the building along with videos and renderings of what tenant access would feel like at each major touchpoint - front door, elevator door, unit door," Ezold says."

The Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award recognizes collaboration, ingenuity and excellence in security design for consulting firms engaged in security engineering and design. The award is presented by SecuritySpecifiers at its annual CONSULT event and is co-sponsored by Security magazine. The award honors collaboration, design excellence, uniqueness, creativity and administrative contributions to successful security projects and commemorates Elliot Boxerbaum, who died of ALS in 2014. Matthew Ezold of Bala Consulting Engineers accepted the award at the 2025 CONSULT ceremony in Denver. The recognized project ran from 2020 to 2024 and integrated two downtown Nashville multifamily buildings. The design prioritized smarthome systems, tenant access experience storyboards, and managing high pedestrian traffic near new urban developments.

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