| Egress Design Solutions: A Guide to Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning Contributor(s): Tubbs, Jeffrey (Author), Meacham, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0471719560 ISBN-13: 9780471719564 Publisher: Wiley OUR PRICE: $144.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: The definitive architectural resource on designing for egress, evacuation, and life safety Egress systems, in concert with evacuation plans and crowd management, form the fundamental basis of good life-safety design for emergency events, yet there are fewcomplete and comprehensive reference books covering the broad nature of this subject. This book fills this gap by providing a comprehensive review of egress design and analysis, covering egress fundamentals and strategies, performance solutions, human behavior, evacuation modeling, evacuation planning, and crowd management. The authors, both recognized experts in the field, present egress concepts that are both prescriptive and performance-based, accounting for human behavior in emergency conditions as well as a range of expected hazards. Contents include: A review of historic and recent tragic life-loss fire events An overview of prescriptive and performance-based U.S. building codes Practical design solutions for a wide range of occupancies Techniques for coordinating egress systems with other critical life safety systems |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Methods & Materials |
| Dewey: 628.922 |
| LCCN: 2007004237 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 8.17" W x 9.29" (3.02 lbs) 544 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
