Abstract
The number of high-rise buildings have increased for a last decade. It is very important to carry out Performance Based Building Design by predicting various fire scenarios accurately. However, it is difficult and dangerous to do a full-scale evacuation experiment before a building is completed, so fire and evacuation models are usually used to analyse and to evaluate fire safety. Although egress models have some critical points, it is impracticable to predict evacuation characteristics for higher buildings because its travel route is vertically and repeatedly longer to travel staircases. They are also not enough reliable to reflect individual reaction, interaction in small groups and physical fatigue. Therefore, this study collected human behaviour data set from a vertical evacuation experiment and re-acted them by using egress models such as buildingEXODUS and Simulex. A more accurate egress model for tall buildings could also be developed using the experimental and computer simulated data.
