- Author
- Proulx, G. | Hadjisophocleous, G.
- Title
- Modelling Occupant Response and Evacuation in Apartment and Office Buildings.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Book or Conf
- Pacific Rim Conference and Second (2nd) International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods. Proceedings. International Code Council and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). May 3-9, 1998, International Code Council, Birmingham, AL, Maui, HI, 279-293 p., 1998
- Keywords
- performance based codes | fire safety | apartments | office buildings | evacuation | response time | cost effectiveness | risk assessment | human factors engineering | human behavior | emergencies | people movement | smoke | evacuation time | validation | occupant response | occupants
- Identifiers
- FIre Risk Evaluation and Cost Assessment Model (FIRECAM); Fire Risk Management (FRM); occupant response model; relationship between timeframes and fire states; occupants perceptions and interpretation levels; occupant moving speed (m/s); types of floor designs; summary of data from apartment building fire drills; summary of data from office building fire drills; test options for office buildings; comparison of the evacuation model results to fire drills in office buildings