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in Fire 2009 Conference Proceedings papers from the 4th international symposium Robinson College, Cambridge, UK 13 – 15 July 2009 Price:
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4th symposium addresses current issues associated with the
fire safety design and evacuation of high/medium rise buildings, structures,
dwellings, and transport modes, in particular, the World Trade Centre
Research Studies are reviewed. Over 3 days nearly 70 papers and poster
presented a wide-ranging technical programme from a group of international experts representing
15 countries. PAPERS
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PANEL DISCUSSION: WORLD TRADE CENTRE Research and regulatory reform: Three major studies , James Colgate, J Hans Lee, New York City Dept of Buildings, Federal
investigation of the evacuation of the World Trade Center on September 11,
2001, Jason
Averill, R Peacock, E Kuligowski, R Reneke, NIST, D Mileti, Univ of Colorado, N Groner,
John Jay College, H Nelson, Independent Consultant, USA and G Proulx, NRC, Canada The The
UK WTC 9/11 evacuation study: An overview of the methodologies employed and some analysis relating to fatigue, stair
travel speeds and occupant response times, Edwin Galea, L Hulse, R Day, A Siddiqui, G
Sharp, Univ of Greenwich, UK FIRE
SAFETY DESIGN AND EVACUATION ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH TALL BUILDINGS Selecting appropriate
evacuation strategies for super tall buildings: Current challenges and needs, Jeffrey Tubbs, Arup and B
Meacham, Worcester Polytechnic Inst, A study on high rise building fire
evacuation strategies for Taipei
101 Financial Centre, Kuang-Hua Hsiung, Fire Dept of
Taipei City, S-W Chien, P-T Huang, Central Police Univ and C-H Tseng, Fire Dept, Taoyuan
, Taiwan A
situation awareness requirements analysis for the use of elevators during
fire emergencies, Norman Groner, John Jay College, City Univ
of New York, USA Lifts
for evacuation – Human behaviour considerations, Emma Heyes, Investigating the use of elevators for high-rise building
evacuation through computer simulation, Michael Kinsey,
E Galea, P Lawrence, Univ of
Greenwich, UK The
use of elevators for egress Discussion Panel, Guylène Proulx NRC, Canada, E Heyes,
ARUP Fire, Perth, PJohnson, ARUP Fire, Melbourne,
Australia, G Hedman, Univ
of Illinois at Chicago, J Averill, NIST, J Pauls,
Jake Pauls Consulting Services, USA and D McColl, Otis Elevator Company, Canada EVACUATION
BY MEANS OF STAIRS AND/OR ESCALATORS – RELATED ISSUES Who defers to whom? Deference behaviour on stairs, Marie Melly, P Lennon, R Lennon, Letterkenny
Inst of Implications
of modelling and experimental studies of evacuation behaviour on stairs for multistorey building design, David Purser, Hartford Environmental Research and K Boyce, FireSERT, Univ of Ulster, UK Feasibility of upward evacuation by escalator
– An experimental study , Naoko Okada, Y Hasemi, S Moriyama, K Hirakawa, K Takemori, T Hebiishi, Y Lu, Waseda Univ, Japan Extended
model of pedestrian escalator behaviour based on
data collected within a Chinese underground station, Michael Kinsey, E Galea,
P Lawrence, Univ of Greenwich, UK Study on availability and issues of
evacuation using stopped escalators in a
subway station, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Tokyu Research
Inst, Inc , A Sekizawa, Univ of Tokyo, Wataru
Takahashi, ING Co Ltd, Japan EVACUATION DYNAMICS – EXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATION STUDIES A comprehensive
modern approach to developing evacuation data capture/analysis and simulation
tools for real world fire engineering, Shrikant Sharma, V Tabak, D Brocklehurst,
Buro Happold Ltd and A Sagun, D Bouchlaghem,
Evacuation in complex environments – an
analysis of evacuation conditions in a nuclear power plant and a tunnel
construction site, Håkan Frantzich, D Nilsson, Lund Univ,
Hotel evacuation at night; an analysis of
unannounced fire drills under various conditions, Margrethe Kobes, Netherlands Inst for Safety and VU Univ Amsterdam, N Oberijé, K Groenewegen, Netherlands Inst for Safety, I Helsloot, VU Univ Amsterdam and B de Vries, Eindhoven Univ of Tech,
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study on evacuation of school buildings for elementary education, Rosaria Ono, Univ of São Paulo and M V Valentin, Pre-school
and school children building evacuation, V Kholshevnikov, State Moscow Univ of Civil Engineering and D Samoshin,
A Parfenenko, Evacuation from a single family house, Guylène Proulx, NRC,
VISIBILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SIGNAGE IN DEGRADING ENVIRONMENTS Simulation
of perceived visibility in smoke laden environment ,
Qihui Zhang, P Rubini,
Univ of Hull, UK Modelling the visibility of emergency signs in smoke and smoke-free conditions,
Volker
Schneider, IST GmbH, Experimental
study of the effectiveness of emergency signage, Hui Xie, L Filippidis,
E Galea, D Blackshields,
Peter Lawrence, Univ of Greenwich, UK Calculating
methods of evacuee’s behavior based on the floor illuminance
in fire smoke estimated by two layer zone mode, Yuki Akizuki,
Univ of Toyama, EVACUEE BEHAVIOURS
AND EXPERIENCES IN REAL FIRES Fire in an operating theatre what really happens? A case study of a
fire in a private hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand, Debbie Scott, OnFire
Consulting Ltd, Fire in Euroborg Football Stadium; Analysis of human behaviour, Nancy Oberijé,
M Kobes, J Weges, J Post,
Netherlands Inst for Safety (NIFV), The POPULATIONS AT GREATER RISK FROM FIRE Community based research on the effectiveness of the home
smoke alarm in waking up children, Dorothy
Bruck, I Thomas, Victoria Univ,
Behaviour, fire and older people: Implications of the
demographic growth of a vulnerable population, Ian Miller, Heimdall
Consulting Ltd, Sleep
inertia in the context of emergency evacuation: a review of what we do and do
not know, Dorothy Bruck, M Tokley, Victoria Univ, OCCUPANT RESPONSES TO FIRE STIMULI The use of auditory, tactile and visual alarm signals: A focus on the
effectiveness of light, Michelle
Ball, D Bruck, I Thomas, Victoria Univ, Adapting the road tunnel
safety devices to the users, Marc Tesson, ‘Panic’ and human behaviour in fire, Rita Fahy, NFPA, USA, G Proulx, NRCC and L Aiman, Deakin Univ, Australia A survey of the characteristics
of human evacuation behaviors in building fires Wei-wen Tseng, T-s Shen, C-w Liang, Central Police Univ, Is
consideration of evacuation relevant to most fire fatalities? Using the
CESARE Coronial Database to investigate the utility of ASET/RSET calculations, An
investigation of passenger exit selection decisions in aircraft evacuation
situations, Madeleine Togher, E Galea, P Lawrence, Univ of
Greenwich, UK EMERGENCY PLANNING
AND DECISION MAKING How
well will your emergency plan work? – A technique to assess human errors and human
behaviour in emergency response, S Y Zachary Au, Human Interactions Limited, On-line
information and decision-support in building egress,
Elise Miller-Hooks, Univ of Maryland, Application of adaptive management concepts to building
evacuation and emergency response, Brian Meacham, Worcester Polytechnic Inst, TOWARDS PERFORMANCE BASED HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING A review of the sources of occupant performance data used in building evacuation
models, Rani Kady, Old Dominion Univ, S Gwynne, Hughes Asscs
and J Davis, Auburn Univ, US The standardization of human egress data, Steve Gwynne, Hughes Asscs,
The use of experts for predicting human behaviour in
fires, Glyn Lawson, S Sharples, D Clarke, S Cobb, The Univ
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Implementation of cognitive mapping,
spatial representation and wayfinding behaviours of people within evacuation modelling tools,
Anand Veeraswamy, P Lawrence, E Galea, Univ of Greenwich, UK A
risk contour based methodology towards improving the validity of RSET estimations
in ASET/RSET evaluations, Mahmut Horasan, Scientific Fire Services Pty Ltd, Complex
systems – a holistic approach for understanding and modelling fire evacuation
behaviour, Daniel Nilsson, Lund Univ and Christian Uhr, Swedish
Civil Contingencies Agency, Informed
emergency responses through improved situation awareness Discussion
Panel, Jake Pauls
Consulting Services, N Groner, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, S Gwynne, Hughes Asscs, Inc., E Kuligowski, NIST,
B Meacham, Worcester Polytechnic Inst,
A Ripley, Journalist, USA, G Proulx, NRCC and I
Thomas, Victoria Univ, Australia POSTERS PAPERS Simulation of human movement by cellular automata
models using different update schemes, Christian Rogsch, Univ
of Wuppertal, A Schadschneider,
Univ of Cologne, A Seyfried,
Forschungszentrum Jülich
GmbH, Germany Simulating building
evacuation using an agent based approach, Nate Wittasek, Arup, USAFlow-based microsimulation
of evacuation processes, Nick Waterson, Mott MacDonald Ltd/Imperial College London, S
Le Bail, Mott MacDonald Ltd and B V H Boulanger,
Imperial College London, UKSensor-linked simulation for emergency response, Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell, BRE Global and Sung-Han Koo, Stephen Welch, The Univ of
Edinburgh, UK Comparison of two egress models and a full-scale
experiment, Bjørg Christoffersen, AK83, Consulting Architects and Christina
Söderlind, ALECTIA A/S, Denmark An
experimental study on the evacuation flow of crowd including wheelchair users, Taku
Shimada, Akeno Fire Research Inst and Hideo Naoi, Tokyo Univ of Science, Assessment of human behavior
parameters used in performance-based design approaches for different building
use groups , Alberto
Alvarez, B Meacham, Worcester Polytechnic Inst, A study on the adaptive guidance-system and the evacuation experiments
for simulation model, Hidekazu Kakei, The Univ of Tokushima, T Sako, T Sano,
Waseda Univ and H Sato,
ERS Corp., Japan Evacuation
for tall buildings in Hong Kong, Kendrew Ng, W Chow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
Univ, China and C Chow, Univ
of Cambridge, UK Stair descent devices: An overview of current devices and proposed
framework for standards and testing, Glenn Hedman, Univ
of Illinois at Human
behaviour in tunnel accidents, Silke Eder, J Brutting, A Muhlberger, P Pauli, Univ of Wurzburg, Germany An evacuation simulation method for a high speed
passenger train, Jorge Capote, D Alvear,
O Abreu, M Lázaro, A Cuesta, Univ of Cantabria, Spain Experiments of the subway
car egress, Jong-Hoon Kim, W-H Kim, School bus evacuation: Research to practice, Rani Kady, Old Dominion Univ and The process of human
behavior in fires, Erica Kuligowski,
Occupant
response and evacuation at the Station Nightclub fire: An analysis of witness
statements, Rita Risk
factors for residential fire fatality across the lifespan: Comparing coronial
data for children, adults and elders, Helen Graesser, Evacuation drills of a cinema auditorium, Manuela Tancogne-Dejean,
H Colina, Technical Assn of the Hydraulic Binders
Industry (ATILH) and D Ilsbrock, K Van Niel, Central Laboratory of Police Headquarters France An
analysis of the recognition and response behaviours
of evacuees of WTC 1 on 9/11, N.C.McConnell,
Queens Univ Belfast and Karen Boyce, T.Jim
Shields, Univ of Ulster, UK Author Index
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