- Author
- Alvord, D. M.
- Title
- Fire Emergency Evacuation Simulation for Multifamily Buildings: An Extended Escape and Rescue Model.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- UJNR Panel on Fire Research and Safety. 8th Joint Panel Meeting. May 13-21, 1985., Tsukuba, Japan, 560-577 p., 1985
- Keywords
- evacuation | single family dwellings | occupants
- Abstract
- One of the most important safety criteria that a building must satisfy concerns its fire safety: Is the building "safe" enough to provide sufficient time to permit emergency evacuation of its occupants in the event of a fire? This question is of interest to building designers, building managers, and officials concerned with building safety codes. Differing building-population combinations will vary greatly in their required evacuation times. Normal people may finish egress from a single family dwelling in less than a minute, whereas hospital occupants may require hours. Between these two extremes lie an infinite number of possible scenarios. Given a specific building with a special population group, fire drills are the traditional means to establish evacuation time.