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"Minutes" Matter: Fixing the Access Gap in Emergency Response
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 @ 13:00 EST/ 11:00 MST/ 10:00 PST
Emergency response is only as effective as the conditions responders arrive to. Police, fire, and EMS are highly trained professionals who perform under extreme pressure every day. But when the built environment isn’t set up for emergency access and rapid intelligence-sharing, valuable minutes are lost before response can truly begin. In complex residential and mixed-use buildings, access delays, missing building intelligence, unclear procedures, and fragmented information-sharing can increase risk, slow stabilization, and create preventable strain across multi-agency response.
In this presentation, we will share how the Building Access Program (BAP), developed in partnership with Peel Regional Police, and deployed in live operations, turns the built environment into an operational partner in emergency readiness. By standardizing verified access procedures and response-critical building information, BAP reduces friction at the point of entry and improves coordination across police, fire, EMS, and property stakeholders during dynamic incidents, and beyond, at no cost to building owners.
While BAP was designed to fix real, well-documented response barriers that contribute to negative outcomes, its biggest advantage is what it enables long-term: a secure, trusted method of information-sharing that turns the community and the built environment into active, ongoing contributors into community safety and wellbeing. This same channel strengthens prevention, improves emergency management readiness, and supports specialized policing and broader public safety operations. The result is a scalable community capability with measurable gains, minutes saved, risk reduced, and better outcomes for responders, building owners and occupants alike.
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