- Author
- Yung, D. | Hadjisophocleous, G. V. | Proulx, G.
- Title
- Comparative Fire Risk Assessments of Highrise Office Buildings With Refuge Floors and Lowrise Buildings Without Refuge Floors.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Book or Conf
- National Building Research Institute. CIB-ASTM-ISO-RILEM International Symposium, 3rd. Applications of the Concept in Building. Proceedings. Volume 2. December 9-12, 1997, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1996
- Keywords
- risk assessment | fire risk | high rise buildings | office buildings | refuge | fire protection | fire safety | people movement | costs
- Identifiers
- FIre Risk Evaluation and Cost Assessment Model (FIRECAM); modelling concepts and limitations; application to a 100-storey office building with refuge floors; fire protection options to be considered for the 10-storey and the 100-storey buildings; relative expected risk to life for the 8 fire safety design options; travel times in stairs to reach refuge floor, and critical times in stairs when the fire is on the second floor of the building, for the various design options