Egress design solutions : a guide to evacuation and crowd management planning / Jeffrey S. Tubbs, Brian J. Meacham.

By: Tubbs, Jeffrey S
Contributor(s): Meacham, Brian J
Language: English Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2007]Copyright date: c2007Description: xiv, 530 pages : illustrations; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780471719564 (cloth); 0471719560 (cloth)Subject(s): Fire escapes | Buildings -- Evacuation | Building layout | Crowd controlDDC classification: 628.9/22 LOC classification: TH2274 | .T83 2007
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Foreword List of Figures and Illustrations Introduction Part 1 Background Chapter 1 Building Codes and Regulations Chapter 2 Significant Historical Events Part 2 ? Egress System Fundamentals Chapter 3 Egress Strategies Chapter 4 Prescriptive Egress Concepts Chapter 5 Supporting Systems Part 3 ? Human Behavior and Performance Concepts Chapter 6 Human Behavior Chapter 7 Performance Egress Concepts Part 4 Evacuation Planning and Design Chapter 8 Evacuation Planning Chapter 9 Design Solutions Appendices Index
Summary: The architect's primary source for information on designing for egress, evacuation, and life safety, Egress Design Solutions, Emergency Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning, is written by proven experts on egress issues. Meacham and Tubbs are engineers with Arup, an international firm with a stellar reputation for quality design and engineering. Their book examines egress solutions in terms of both prescriptive and performance-based code issues. A portion of the book focuses on techniques for providing egress design solutions and for coordinating egress systems with other critical life safety systems. Another part reviews historic and recent tragic life-loss fire events. As such, this is easily the most comprehensive take on the subject, written especially for architects.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Foreword
List of Figures and Illustrations
Introduction
Part 1 Background
Chapter 1 Building Codes and Regulations
Chapter 2 Significant Historical Events
Part 2 ? Egress System Fundamentals
Chapter 3 Egress Strategies
Chapter 4 Prescriptive Egress Concepts
Chapter 5 Supporting Systems
Part 3 ? Human Behavior and Performance Concepts
Chapter 6 Human Behavior
Chapter 7 Performance Egress Concepts
Part 4 Evacuation Planning and Design
Chapter 8 Evacuation Planning
Chapter 9 Design Solutions
Appendices
Index

The architect's primary source for information on designing for egress, evacuation, and life safety, Egress Design Solutions, Emergency Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning, is written by proven experts on egress issues. Meacham and Tubbs are engineers with Arup, an international firm with a stellar reputation for quality design and engineering. Their book examines egress solutions in terms of both prescriptive and performance-based code issues. A portion of the book focuses on techniques for providing egress design solutions and for coordinating egress systems with other critical life safety systems. Another part reviews historic and recent tragic life-loss fire events. As such, this is easily the most comprehensive take on the subject, written especially for architects.

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