- Author
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Proulx, G.
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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
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performance based codes
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fire safety
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apartments
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office buildings
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evacuation
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response time
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cost effectiveness
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risk assessment
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human factors engineering
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human behavior
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emergencies
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people movement
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smoke
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evacuation time
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validation
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occupant response
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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