Comparison of model predictions and actual experience of occupant response and evacuation in two highrise apartment building fires

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Author	Search for: Yung, D. T.¹; Search for: Proulx, G.¹; Search for: Bénichou, N.¹
Affiliation	National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
Format	Text, Article
Conference	2nd International Symposium on Human Behaviour in Fire: 26 March 2001, Boston, MA., U.S.A.
Subject	apartment, building, fire, smoke, occupant, risk, prediction, actual; Risk/cost assessment
Abstract	This paper compares the predictions of the FiRECAM risk-cost assessment model with the actual experience of occupant response and evacuation in two high-rise apartment building fires. The first fire was one that occurred in a 29-storey building and resulted in 6 casualties in the stair shafts. The second occurred in a 25-storey building that had a casualty in the apartment of fire origin and a subsequent death a few days later. FiRECAM employs a fire growth sub-model to predict how the fire develops in the apartment of fire origin, a smoke movement sub-model to predict how the smoke spreads in the building, and estimates the time at which the stairs become unusable for evacuation. It also employs occupant response and evacuation sub-models to predict the behaviour of the occupants.
Publication date	2001-03-01
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NRC number	NRCC 44524 NRC-IRC-10204
NPARC number	20378596
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