Download or read book Feasibility and Design Considerations of Emergency Evacuation by Elevators written by Daniel M. Alvord and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper shows that use of elevators in addition to stairs during a fire emergency allows occupants and firefighters an additional system of vertical transportation. Even though the focus of this paper is fire evacuation, much of the information is also applicable to evacuation for other emergencies. The results of a previous project to develop smoke control of elevator systems are presented in Appendix A. An interactive computer program, ELVAC, was written specifically for the analyses of this paper.

Download or read book Feasibility and Design Considerations for the Use of Lifts as an Emergency Exit in Apartment Buildings written by Than Singh Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Feasibility of Fire Evacuation by Elevators at FAA Control Towers written by John H. Klote and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of the world, warning signs next to elevators indicated they should not be used in fire situations. Because these elevators have not been designed for fire evacuation, they should not be used for fire evacuation. However, the idea of using elevators for fire evacuation has gained considerable attention. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has sponsored a project to study the feasibility of elevator emergency evacuation at air traffic control towers. This paper describes this project including (1) a general discussion of elevator evacuation, (2) presentation of conceptual criteria for such elevator evacuation systems, and (3) application of that criteria to several ATCTs. It is concluded that elevator emergency evacuation is not feasible for existing ATCTs. This could change for some standard designs if water resistant elevator components are developed that make water protection of elevators feasible. However, elevator emergency evacuation is feasible for new ATCTs, and this would involve significant challenges concerning engineering and human factors.

Download or read book Human Factors Considerations for the Potential Use of Elevators for Fire Evacuation of FAA Air Traffic Control Towers written by U.s. Department of Commerce and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is part of a wider investigation of the feasibility of using elevators for emergency egress in Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control towers.

Download or read book Egress Design Solutions written by Jeffrey Tubbs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architect's primary source for information on designing for egress, evacuation, and life safety, Egress Design Solutions, Emergency Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning, is written by proven experts on egress issues. Meacham and Tubbs are engineers with Arup, an international firm with a stellar reputation for quality design and engineering. Their book examines egress solutions in terms of both prescriptive and performance-based code issues. A portion of the book focuses on techniques for providing egress design solutions and for coordinating egress systems with other critical life safety systems. Another part reviews historic and recent tragic life-loss fire events. As such, this is easily the most comprehensive take on the subject, written especially for architects.

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Download or read book Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics written by Richard D. Peacock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aging population, increasing obesity and more people with mobility impairments are bringing new challenges to the management of routine and emergency people movement in many countries. These population challenges, coupled with the innovative designs being suggested for both the built environment and other commonly used structures (e.g., transportation systems) and the increasingly complex incident scenarios of fire, terrorism, and large-scale community disasters, provide even greater challenges to population management and safety. Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics, an edited volume, is based on the Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED) 5th International 2010 conference, March 8th-10th 2010, located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. This volume addresses both pedestrian and evacuation dynamics and associated human behavior to provide answers for policy makers, designers, and emergency management to help solve real world problems in this rapidly developing field. Data collection, analysis, and model development of people movement and behavior during nonemergency and emergency situations will be covered as well.

Download or read book Building and Fire Research Laboratory Publications written by Building and Fire Research Laboratory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Human Factors Considerations for the Potential Use of Elevators for Fire Evacuation of FAA Air Traffic Control Towers written by Bernard M. Levin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is interested in the possibility of using elevators for evacuation of air traffic control towers during fire emergencies. Assuming that the FAA could design, install, and maintain elevators that could safely be used by tower occupants during fire evacuations, it would be important to study a number of human factor considerations This report, which is partly based on interviews of occupants in thirteen FAA towers, discusses these issues. Given the fact that there has been a 20 year campaign to discourage elevator use during fire emergencies, most interviewees indicated a willingness to use such elevators as a backup mode of escape with some reluctance. The controls in the elevator would not need any major modification but a special communication system would be needed. Fire emergency plans and training are important to assure proper use of the proposed system and confidence in the safety it provides.

Download or read book Human Factors Considerations in the Potential for Using Elevators in Building Emergency Evacuation Plans written by U.s. Department of Commerce and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years the American public has been trained to avoid the use of elevators during fire emergencies. Warning signs at elevators tell people not to use the elevators during fire evacuation.

Download or read book Feasibility of Fire Evacuation by Elevators at FAA Control Towers written by John H. Klote (et al) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Human Factors Considerations in the Potential for Using Elevators in Building Emergency Evacuation Plans written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Human Factors Considerations in the Potential for Using Elevators in Building Emergency Evacuation Plans written by Norman E. Groner and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If elevators could be safely used in fire emergencies, the safety of building occupants with mobility limitations could be greatly enhanced and the time for all occupants to evacuate might be reduced. This report covers a study of human factors considerations related to the possible use of elevators for evacuations in fire emergencies. It covers the selection of the fundamental approach to organizing elevator evacuations for specific buildings; the coordination and direction of the evacuation; the decision-making, information and communication needs to permit a coordinated evacuation; and the documentation, manning and training requirements to permit a proper implementation of the fire emergency plan.

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