Focus: alarm and evacuation
Galea, E.
Focus: alarm and evacuation - 2003 - Fire Engineers' Journal August 2003, 16-39(22) .
Special report on fire alarm and evacuation comprising of: "World in motion" previews the second International Conference in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED 2003); "Predicting the past" compares a simulation's predictions with actual events; "Data benefits" identifies the factors which have the greatest impact on building evacuation times to enable research to be targeted at obtaining useful data; "Lift logic" argues that emergency escape lifts should be used as a major means of escape in super-high-rise buildings; "Sound effects" describes the technology available for raising the alarm in the event of fire: "Deaf defying" examines how the implementation of new legislation should raise the standards of fire safety provision for deaf people; "Natural control" outlines a system that was introduced to reduce the number of false alarms.
FIRE EVACUATION
FIRE ALARMS
LIFTS
FIRE ESCAPE
Focus: alarm and evacuation - 2003 - Fire Engineers' Journal August 2003, 16-39(22) .
Special report on fire alarm and evacuation comprising of: "World in motion" previews the second International Conference in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED 2003); "Predicting the past" compares a simulation's predictions with actual events; "Data benefits" identifies the factors which have the greatest impact on building evacuation times to enable research to be targeted at obtaining useful data; "Lift logic" argues that emergency escape lifts should be used as a major means of escape in super-high-rise buildings; "Sound effects" describes the technology available for raising the alarm in the event of fire: "Deaf defying" examines how the implementation of new legislation should raise the standards of fire safety provision for deaf people; "Natural control" outlines a system that was introduced to reduce the number of false alarms.
FIRE EVACUATION
FIRE ALARMS
LIFTS
FIRE ESCAPE