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Emergency Egress
The development of an appropriate and effective egress strategy is considered a key fire safety aspect in very tall buildings. Above certain heights, the vertical distance to be traveled may subject occupants to additional risks when adopting the traditional method of evacuation using only stairways. This chapter discusses how to develop an egress strategy for a very tall building. It also discusses how an egress system may require alternative strategies such as relocation or refuge in addition to examining what role elevators can play in enabling timely occupant egress from very tall buildings.
Emergency Egress
The development of an appropriate and effective egress strategy is considered a key fire safety aspect in very tall buildings. Above certain heights, the vertical distance to be traveled may subject occupants to additional risks when adopting the traditional method of evacuation using only stairways. This chapter discusses how to develop an egress strategy for a very tall building. It also discusses how an egress system may require alternative strategies such as relocation or refuge in addition to examining what role elevators can play in enabling timely occupant egress from very tall buildings.
Emergency Egress
The soc. of Fire Protection Engineers Series
2021-10-31
35 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Evacuation , Evacuation elevators , Human behavior , Timed egress analysis , Egress models , Defend-in-place , Supplementary escape equipment Engineering , Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety , Building Construction and Design , Building Repair and Maintenance , Civil Engineering , Building Materials
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