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Austin Building Managers Review, Reinforce Security

AUSTIN-State capital building managers today are delivering assurances to tenants that all's well inside their buildings. BOMA Austin says everything possible is being done locally to guarantee safety despite the impossibility of such a feat.

By Tim Green | Updated on September 12, 2001

AUSTIN-As offices return to a more normal footing today after Tuesday’s attacks in New York City and Washington, DC, building managers are reinforcing disaster procedures with their tenants.

“The first thing I want to do is assure all my tenants,” Don Tait, former chairman of the Austin Building Owners and Managers Association disaster committee, tells GlobeSt.com. He says he’ll tell tenants, via e-mail, that he’s reviewing security issues. Then he’ll meet with tenant representatives to provide updates and “make sure everybody knows what to do.”

Tait, the building manager for T. Stacy Associates, said it probably will mean handing out basic safety procedures out all over again. “There’s no telling where they’ve put it,” he says. “These are things people put in a notebook, put it somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’ve got it, thank you very much,’ but no one ever looks at it.” Tait manages the 15-story 823 Congress building, 12-story Perry-Brooks Building and six-story Texas Trial Lawyers building in Austin’s CBD for Stacy.

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