Constitution Center Takes Control of Security With Symmetry Homeland
Occupying a full city block a short distance from Capitol Hill, the Mall and several federal agencies, the Constitution Center is the largest privately owned building in Washington. The building was completely renovated between July 2007 and December 2010 and is now fully leased by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the General Services Administration.
When looking at how they could better manage their new tenants’ needs, the building’s owner, David Nassif Associates, and its managing general partner, Timothy Jaroch, faced the decision of continuing to use the existing access control system or consider a security management system that could work with competing providers’ equipment. Jaroch decided to partner with Allegiance Security Integration (ASI), which suggested converting the existing system to AMAG Technology’s Symmetry Homeland Security Management System, which was agnostic and could grow with Constitution Center as it added more readers and cameras to its system. Symmetry Homeland also met Constitution Center’s requirement to be HSPD-12 compliant, a federal government mandated security standard for secure and reliable forms of identification.