- Author
- Zhao, C. M. | Lo, S. M. | Lu, J. A. | Fang, Z.
- Title
- Simulation Approach for Ranking of Fire Safety Attributes of Existing Buildings.
- Coporate
- City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Wuhan Univ., China
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 39, No. 7, 557-579, October 2004
- Keywords
- fire safety | simulation | uncertainty | equations | decision making | high rise buildings | residential buildings
- Identifiers
- Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method; fire saety ranking; random consistency index RI; fundamental scale; content of goal, criteria and attributes; variance along the virtual scale; statistical information of the criteria level; frequency of each rank relative to the goal; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; ranking of fire safety criteria and attributes for high-rise residential buildings; frequency of each rank relative to means of escape and warning system (MoE); frequency of each rank relative to fire-resistant construction (FRC); frequency of each rank relative to means of access for fire fighting and emergency vehicle access (MoA); frequency of each rank relative to Fire Services Installation (FSI); frequency of each rank relative to building characteristics and management (BCM)