Strategies for evacuation of occupants from high-rise residential buildings involved in fire

Home Office, 2024
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Presents key findings based on evaluating evacuation strategies of high-rise residential buildings using live operational testing and computer modelling. Explored: evacuation times, stairwell congestion, delays and impacts of evacuating residents with impairments, other factors and software modelling.

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Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evacuation-from-high-rise-residential-buildings-involved-in-fire and converted to PDF. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: research and analysis. First published: 5 February 2024.

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  • Building control
  • Building control, England
  • Legal issues and management
  • Special subject areas
  • Health and safety
  • Fire

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