- Author
- Frantzich, H.
- Title
- En modell for dimensionering av forbindelser for utrymning utifran funktionsbaserade krav. [Model to Design Escape Routes in a Building Based on Performance Based Requirements.]
- Coporate
- Lund Univ., Sweden
- Report
- LUTVDG/TVBB-1011-SE, December 1994, 76 p.
- Keywords
- escape means | people movement | fire behavior | safety factors | evacuation | human behavior
- Abstract
- The report describes a model for designing escape routes in a building based on performance based requirements. The model consists of three parts, awareness, behavior and response, and movement. The sum of the time for each of the three components should be compared to the available time for escape with some safety factors not yet determined. In this report the focus is on the movement component of evacuation. A number of experiments have been performed to validate and confirm the existing knowledge on movement. In addition to this, new data on the ability to use windows and spiral stairs as means of escape is presented. In the area of behavior and response a set of proposed design values is presented. The values are processed from an enquiry among the Swedish fire officers.