- Author
- Klote, J. H.
- Title
- Overview of Elevator Use for Emergency Evacuation.
- Coporate
- Fire and Smoke Consulting, Leesburg, VA
- Book or Conf
- Strategies for Performance in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center. CIB-CTBUH Conference on Tall Buildings. Proceedings. Task Group on Tall Buildings: CIB TG50. CIB Publication No. 290. October 20-23, 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Shafii, F.; Bukowski, R.; Klemencic, R., Editors, 175-185 p., 2003
- Keywords
- World Trade Center | high rise buildings | elevators (lifts) | emergencies | evacuation | human behavior | smoke | smoke control | fire spread | water
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; piston effect; computer program for elevator evacuation (ELVAC); Emergency Elevator Evacuation Systems (EEES); water flows of some suppresion and firefighting devices; results of elevator door water leakage tests (Klote and Braun 1996); summary of elevator evacuation calculations of the GSA study (Klote, et al. 1992)