Vehicle impact bollards are often required by building and fire-safety codes and standards to protect equipment located in or near traffic routes.

Do I need bollards?

Security bollards: To help prevent stores from “smash and grab” burglaries, where a heavy vehicle smashes through a window of a shop and items can be looted in a short period of time, you can install security bollards. ... In more extreme cases, too, they protect against terrorist attacks in high security areas.

Why do stores have bollards?

Food businesses and storefronts need bollards to regulate traffic, provide entrance indicators and keep cars from accidental or intentional crashes into the buildings.