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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