During a fire emergency, tenants evacuate via the stairs, and tenants with disabilities wait on the stair landings if elevators are not working, protected by a stairwell pressurization system. All procedures are laid out in the buildings Fire Safety Plan, which is approved by the local Fire Service. But is it adequate?
It is important to realize that an able-bodied person among the building population may become situational disability in the context of high rise evacuation, and may need assistance to get down the stairs.
How to get these people down quickly and with minimum assistance in the absence of elevators?
How to empty the total building population in the shortest possible time in the event of the worst conceivable scenario that could happen to a tall structure?
How to correct egress deficiencies in old building or to provide additional emergency exit(s) or increase the size of existing stairways for mass rapid evacuation where it is not possible due to building structure?
Would someone care to share their views, offer possible solutions..........
It is important to realize that an able-bodied person among the building population may become situational disability in the context of high rise evacuation, and may need assistance to get down the stairs.
How to get these people down quickly and with minimum assistance in the absence of elevators?
How to empty the total building population in the shortest possible time in the event of the worst conceivable scenario that could happen to a tall structure?
How to correct egress deficiencies in old building or to provide additional emergency exit(s) or increase the size of existing stairways for mass rapid evacuation where it is not possible due to building structure?
Would someone care to share their views, offer possible solutions..........
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