- Author
- Sano, T. | Hagiwara, I. | Tanaka, A.
- Title
- Evacuation Design Strategy for High-Rise Buildings.
- Coporate
- National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ibaraki, Japan Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan
- 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, 567-572 p., 2003
- Keywords
- World Trade Center | high rise buildings | egress | evacuation | building design | life safety | handicapped | human behavior | survivors | escape means | elevators (lifts) | occupants
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; reports about escape from the WTC, September 11, 2001; outline of the total escape from the WTC; summary of damage; estimation of the evacuation time by using elevators; design strategy proposal; basic concept for evacuation design