Quantitative Comparison of International Design Standards of Escape Routes in Assembly Buildings

Burkhard Forell (), Ralf Seidenspinner () and Dietmar Hosser ()
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Burkhard Forell: Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH
Ralf Seidenspinner: Institute of Construction Management, University of Wuppertal
Dietmar Hosser: Braunschweig University of Technology, Institute of Building Materials, Concrete Construction and Fire Protection

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008, 2010, pp 791-801 from Springer

Abstract: Summary The design standards for escape routes in assembly buildings are discussed by comparing the building codes and regulations of eight European countries, China, and USA. To quantify the results for the simple scenario of the evacuation of an assembly room, the travel times are calculated by flow capacity equations. For each country the results vary with the area of the assembly room. Among different countries there is a significant scatter of the results which varies by a factor of three. As the travel times are influenced by the design occupant densities which range from 0.5 to 4 p/m2 for places of entertainment, a second comparison is made with a normalized density of 4 p/m2. Here the results also scatter by a factor of three. The implications on occupant safety are discussed with regard to potential fire scenarios.

Keywords: Travel Time; Building Code; Evacuation Time; Escape Route; Occupant Density (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_76

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