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A study on the Comparison of High-rise building Egress Safety Rule in Countries for improvement of High-rise evacuation safety design criteria  

Hwang, EunKyung (Building Research Department, Advanced Building Research Division, Korea Institute of Construction Technology)
Park, SuRoh (Department of Architecture, Hanyang University)
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Journal of the Society of Disaster Information / v.9, no.4, 2013 , pp. 429-438 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, compare and analyze for high-rise evacuation safety design criteria improvement about internal high-rise building egress safety rule. To the result, high-rise evacuation safety design criteria improvement data can be summarized as follows. First, should compute the evacuation capacity about the number of persons and when more than 2 exits are requested, over 50% of evacuation capacity must be satisfied even approaching to 1 exit is unable. Second, 2 ways of evacuation can be made smoothly by the stair or exit separation-distance standard regulation. Third, regulate the length limitation of dead-end corridor or passageway and it should give grades in limitation of whether the spring-cooler has been installed. Fourth, must secure the evacuation way and do the evacuee guidance when it's safety area and elevator or stair. Also needs to provide extra safety area to secure horizontal direction Escape Safety except fire escaping floor.
Keywords
High-rise buildings; Evacuation design; Egress safety; The building law; The fire law;
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