• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

University dormitory has some weaknesses against disaster such as fire because of high population density and strict control of access in night time. The purpose of this study is suggestion of a guide of effective floor plan for improvement of evacuation safety. Plans for preventing disasters are studied and evacuation safeties are analysed using network model analysis method according to plan types. The weakness of disaster prevention is quantified, and effectiveness of bidirectional evacuation is confirmed. The circuit type floor plan shows best evacuation characteristics and this result is anticipated to be adopted to design process of new dormitories and will contribute to improvement of evacuation safety.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.17-22
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• 2000

For life safety design of shopping mall, we selected a shopping mall, and calculated the evacuation time of means of egress. It is calculated by two kind of evacuation method. One is the computer simulation model, EXODUS. The other is Japan's method. Study way is a model structure study, selecting real shopping mall and setting scenario, calculating the evacuating time. result of study, evaluation time is very high. Therefore we confirmed that the building of means of egress is not fit to evacuation more the capacity of setting population.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

An evacuation simulation was carried out to confirm evacuation efficiency for stair width and problems in calculation of occupant load for high-rise buildings. The evacuation time and number of evacuated persons from a 39 story condominium-mercantile building were calculated by using Simulex for stair widths of 1.2 m, 1.5 m, and 1.8 m. The total occupant load based on the Korean code was higher than the number of actual residents by 2.3 times, and that based on the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code by 2.6 times, respectively. For the occupant load based on the Korean code, smaller stair width resulted in lower evacuation efficiencies due to bottlenecks in egress. For the actual residents and NFPA code-based occupant load, a high evacuation efficiency and negligible effects of the stair width on evacuation efficiency were confirmed. It was shown that there was a bottleneck even at the stair width of 1.8 m for the Korean code-based occupants, while the stair width of 1.2 m provided safe egress to the actual residents or NFPA code-based occupants. This recommended further studies on possibility of lowering the level of the Korean code in calculation of the occupant load.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.213-217
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• 2011

사회복지시설 화재사례 분석과 국내외 화재시 피난의 문제점을 분석한 결과 현행 소방관련법으로 설치된 소방시설은 충분하다고 판단되었으며, 향후 개선되거나 보완하여야 할 조치로는 복지시설 이용자의 특성에 맞는 맞춤형 피난시설과 경보시설이었다. 본 연구에서는 시설별 특성에 맞는 경보시설의 설치를 제안하였고, 사회시설 건축시 내연재료 사용과 방염처리를 통한 원천적인 화재안전관리 방안을 제시하였다.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.24-32
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• 2018

The law reflects the situation of the times, understands the society, and shows the will of the state and the community. The Means of Egress should be maintained from design to construction, supervision, as well as use, in order to protect the lives and property of the residents as well as the safe use of the facilities. However, Interior Architects are think that evacuation and safety regulations are complex elements that change frequently and may inhibit the idea of design. The purpose of this study is to propose a design method for the use of safe facilities in the interior architectural design on the evacuation regulations affecting the actual design by the IBC(the International Building Code) and NFPA(National Fire Protection Association) LSC (Life Safety Code). The research method is to investigate and analyze the provisions related to the evacuation of interior architecture in the US and to understand the current regulations and the evacuation regulations. We suggest to design method to the details of the hallway, corridors, aisle accessway, door way, exit path, In particular, the design of furniture, tables and chairs layout that could be obstacles to evacuation situations is presented.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.105-114
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• 2007

Recently the consideration for occupants' security has been raised as very important design element from the fire by building's large sized, higher storied, and its compounded. But the domestic Laws regulated the predicative laws according to the technical standard which has no difference from the past domestic evacuation regulations. Therefore when big fire occurs, it is not enough to guarantee for occupants to escape safely. Specially since domestic escape relevant laws are divided into Architect relevant law and fire fighting relevant law, it has caused to bring various problems. So This study will show the problems of the evacuation regulation which is registrated in the Architect relevant law and fire fighting relevant law. And also later, when Architect escape relevant laws re-registrate, this study will be used as foundational materials.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1-9
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• 2022

This study analyzes the institutional status related to 'evacuation' and 'firefighting' in underground subway stations, derives institutional limitations for 'evacuation' in underground subway stations, and proposes guidelines in terms of architectural space based on this. As a result of the study, the following points were derived. First, since similar standards are separately enacted in individual laws and it is difficult to grasp the standards and they are dualized, it is necessary to standardize and regulate the space where users stay according to the movement of urban railway users, limited to urban railways. Second, in order to use trains, a special procedure called 'ticketing' must be considered, and regulations on evacuation safety zones and evacuation stairs between the waiting room and the platform are required. Finally, if there is a platform at a depth of more than 30m underground, it is necessary to install an evacuation floor in accordance with standards similar to the current building law.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.227-232
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• 2011

최근 피난제약이 많은 대형 및 고층건축물의 증가함에 따라 화재 시 많은 인적피해가 예상된다. 이에 국내외에서는 화재로부터 인명을 보호하기 위한 방법으로 건축물의 성능 위주 피난 안전성평가를 실시하고 있는데 이를 위해서는 해당 건축물을 이용하는 사용자의 특성을 파악할 필요가 있다. 특히 건축물의 피난용량을 결정하는 재실자 밀도는 중요한 평가요소로 국외의 경우에는 건축물 용도에 따른 단위면적 당 재실 인원 즉, 재실자 밀도를 산정하여 규정하고 있으나 현재 우리나라는 건축법에서 건축물의 용도 및 규모만을 고려한 사양적 기준을 적용하고 있어 재실자를 고려한 피난설계가 제대로 이루어지지 않고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 재실자 밀도 고려한 성능위주 피난용량 확보기술을 위하여 우선적으로 초고층 건축물을 선정하여 재실자 밀도 실태조사를 하였다. 이를 토대로 국내 초고층 건축물의 재실자 밀도 산정 시 기초자료로 이용하고자 한다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.28-41
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• 2011

Regulation of Escape and fire-prevention of Building of South Korea were enacted as a part of building codes in 1962. Since it was enacted, the law has gone through many changes. In this study, evaluated the fire safety of the law about the case of a hotel that the fire risk are expected to be higher whenever it was changed. As a result, the current law has gotten better in tire safety since it was enacted. However, especially it could be confirmed that the evacuation safety is insufficient in the lower level of hotel building. In the case of accommodation, because the occupants become aware of fire lately, they have not enough time to escape. Therefore, this study suggests that it is needed to come up with an effective counterplan about the interior finish materials, fire door and fire compartments that the smoke layer descending time is longer.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.47-52
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• 2017

The recent tragic outbreak of fire at the Grenfell Tower in the United Kingdom compels all branches of government to reexamine and reassess the safety measures against fires in high-rise buildings from a broad perspective. Accordingly, this study examined what problems stem from the current evacuation codes by comparative analysis of the high-rise apartment evacuation codes that range over various individual laws before introducing a new evacuation code. The outcome of this study can be utilized as basic data for amending the existing evacuation codes for high-rise buildings. The codes related to high-rise building evacuation include the Building Act, the Housing Act, the Skyscraper Disaster Management Act, and the Fire-Fighting System Act. Some local governments have also drawn up their own codes and put them into practice. Comparative analysis of the major evacuation codes has helped identify a variety of problems, such as different codes being applied to each individual law and ordinance, the use of additional codes other than the provisions of laws and ordinances, and the in effectiveness of evacuation codes. Most of these problems occur when diverse codes are applied to a single building, which means that cooperation among the relevant ministries is urgently needed to improve the related codes in the future.