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Author
Tanaka, T. | Hagiwara, I. | Mimura, Y.
Title
Consideration on Required Number of Exits in a Room. Part 1. Study on the Safety Performance of Exit Provisions.
Coporate
Building Research Inst., Tokyo, Japan
Report
NISTIR 6030, June 1997,
Distribution
Available from National Technical Information Service
Book or Conf
U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 13th Joint Panel Meeting. Volume 1. March 13-20, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, Beall, K. A., Editors, 53-63 p., 1997
Keywords
fire safety | fire research | exits | regulations | evacuation | escape means | occupants
Identifiers
requriements of two or more exits in the existing regulations; minimum number of means of escape; objective of requirement of two or more exits; expected number of occupants unable to escape from a room; alternative rule to existing two or more exits requirements