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Author
Sekizawa, A. | Nakahama, S. | Ikehata, Y. | Ebihara, M. | Notake, H.
Title
Study on Feasibility of Evacuation by Elevators in a High-Rise Building. Case Study for the Evacuation in the Hiroshima Motomachi High-Rise Apartments.
Coporate
National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Tokyo, Japan Taisei Corporation, Japan Shimizu Corp., Tokyo, Japan
Book or Conf
Human Behavior in Fire: Understanding Human Behavior for Better Fire Safety Design. International Symposium, 2nd. Proceedings. March 26-28, 2001, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Boston, MA, 65-76 p., 2001
Keywords
human behavior | fire safety | high rise buildings | elevators (lifts) | evacuation | apartments | questionnaires | stairways | time | occupants
Identifiers
Hiroshima Motomachi high-rise apartments, October 28, 1996; outline of the fire and the apartments; results of questionnnaire survey on the evacution behavior; tranfer time by elevator; time for evacuees to get on and off an elevator; model of evacution by stairs; conditions of case study; parameters for case study