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Author
Slama, R.
Title
Enhancing the Safety of High Risk Buildings Through the Concept of Levels of Safety and Use of Fire Engineering Tool: The Needs of International Cooperation.
Coporate
Conseil general des Ponts et chaussees Cedex 04, France
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, 321-327 p., 2003
Keywords
World Trade Center | high rise buildings | risk analysis | risk management | economics | fire safety | safety engineering | fire protection engineering | risks | evacuation | fire resistance | interior materials
Identifiers
World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; level of safety; concentration or risks; calorific load; prescriptive approach vs engineering approach; specific approach for areas presenting a high concentration of risks; managing risks lined to malevolence; renewed attention