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Need for Better High-Rise Building Evacuation Practices

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There are various egress components for high-rise building evacuation during an emergency. It is recommended to use these components depending on the type of scenario, but it is important to note that there are certain advantages and disadvantages associated with these egress components. The concept of deciding suitable fire safety system of the building, i.e., available safe evacuation time (ASET) and required safe evacuation time (RSET) is very important while deciding their use. Apart from these egress components, there are few important evacuation strategies which can be used during building evacuation. To study different characteristics of evacuation of the building using various egress components, few computerized fire models are available, but we need further better evacuation strategies, considering the limitations associated with these egress components.

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  1. College of Engineering Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India

    Suvek Salankar

  2. Environmental Research Institute, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, 248007, Uttarakhand, India

    S. M. Tauseef

  3. India Glycol, Kashipur, India

    R. K. Sharma

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  1. College of Engineering Studies, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    N. A. Siddiqui

  2. Environmental Research Institute, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    S. M. Tauseef

  3. Centre for Pollution Control and Environmental Engineering, Pondicherry, India

    S. A. Abbasi

  4. Department of Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

    Ali S. Rangwala

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Salankar, S., Tauseef, S.M., Sharma, R.K. (2018). Need for Better High-Rise Building Evacuation Practices. In: Siddiqui, N., Tauseef, S., Abbasi, S., Rangwala, A. (eds) Advances in Fire and Process Safety. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7281-9_16

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