VALENCIA COMPANY'S BARRICADES SAFEGUARD AGAINST TERRORISM.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer VALENCIA - Tucked away in a nondescript non·de·script adj. Lacking distinctive qualities; having no individual character or form: "This expression gave temporary meaning to a set of features otherwise nondescript" warehouse in the Valencia Industrial Center, Delta Scientific Corp. builds giant steel barriers that protect America's most vaunted vaunt v. vaunt·ed, vaunt·ing, vaunts v.tr. To speak boastfully of; brag about. v.intr. To speak boastfully; brag. See Synonyms at boast1. n. 1. institutions, landmarks and resources. Tuesday, the company was preparing to ship 15 four-ton road barriers to the U.S. Embassy in Iraq to protect against the threat of terrorists driving explosives-packed trucks into the building. Also this week, the company announced it has installed a set of retractable re·tract v. re·tract·ed, re·tract·ing, re·tracts v.tr. 1. To take back; disavow: refused to retract the statement. 2. road blockades that will guard the Hoover Dam Hoover Dam, 726 ft (221 m) high and 1,244 ft (379 m) long, on the Colorado River between Nev. and Ariz.; one of the world's largest dams. Built between 1931 and 1936 by the U.S. . ``We are the world's leader in vehicle access control systems. We're best known for our counterterrorist coun·ter·ter·ror adj. Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons. n. Action or strategy intended to counteract or suppress terrorism. barricades,'' said David Dickinson For other persons named David Dickinson, see David Dickinson (disambiguation). David Dickinson (born David Gulessarian, 16 August, 1941 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English antiques expert and television presenter of Armenian ancestry. , senior vice president of the company. In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and near Washington, D.C., the number of orders that Delta Scientific has received has more than doubled. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dickinson, business executives, military officials and political leaders all realize that the threat of domestic terrorism Noun 1. domestic terrorism - terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people; "the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City was an instance of domestic terrorism" must be acted on preventively. ``When 9-11 happened it made everyone realize that not only does (terrorism) happen in places that we never see, but it could happen every place we go,'' said Richard Holt, a physical security specialist for the Navy, based in Indiana. ``It brought it home to the front doorstep.'' Holt has contracted Delta Scientific for several barricades. ``The primary use of all these barriers is to mitigate an attack by a vehicle laden with bombs to blow up your activities ... you start looking at what your country has as its critical infrastructure, and you start thinking that you need to do something to protect it in case of a terrorist attack.'' The list of locations protected by Delta Scientific is long and illustrious. The New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. , the United Nations building and the Pentagon are just a few. The company makes dozens of different types of barricades, some weighted down with cement that double as flower planters and others that virtually leap out of the ground with the use of hydraulics. The products range in price from $6,000 to $30,000 per lane of protection, and can weigh up to 10,000 pounds - the blockades are designed to stop an 80 mph semitruck dead in its tracks. ``We take large trucks at high speeds to test them for the government standard. These products will destroy the vehicle and continue to operate,'' Dickinson said. Brian Huitt, president and chief executive of Controlled Products Systems Group in Corona, Calif., distributes ``perimeter access control'' products to locations around the world. According to Huitt, there is high demand for barricades and roadblocks because of the understanding that terrorism is easier to fend off than it is to recover from. ``Nine-11 made a big change in that people realize the potential threat from terrorist activities. Various government agencies are taking those threats a lot more seriously now,'' Huitt said. ``There's a lot of very-high-profile installations where there is a lot at stake if something were to happen ... the price they have to pay to prevent that is very small compared to if that terrorism actually took place.'' Nicholas Grudin, (661) 257-5255 nicholas.grudin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Welders at Delta Scientific Corp. in Valencia weld heavy steel beams together to make barricades, shown at left. 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