- Author
- vandeLeur, P. | Janse, E.
- Title
- Egress Provisions and the Dutch Buildings Decree.
- Coporate
- DGMR Consulting Engineers, The Hague, The Netherlands Lichtveld Buis and Partners Consulting Engineers, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Report
- Volume 1
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2004. (Interflam '04). International Interflam Conference, 10th Proceedings. Volume 1. July 5-7, 2004. Organised by Interscience Communications Ltd. in association with National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building Research Establishment; National Fire Protection Association; Society of Fire Protection Engineers; and Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, 425-434 p., 2004
- Keywords
- fire science | fire safety | performance based codes | egress | regulations | simulation | occupants | compartments | smoke | evacuation | people movement | stairways | high rise buildings
- Identifiers
- safe egress in the Dutch fire safety regulations; Dutch Building Code; SIMULEX; EXODUS - prototype egress model designed to simulate the evacuation of large numbers of individuals from an enclosure; occupant density classes, class boundaries and reference values; relationship between occupation density and required exit width, horizontal movement; simultaneous rules for occupied areas and smoke compartments, horizontal movement; technical details of the regulations: vertical movement in staircases; practical issues in applying advanced evacuation models