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Towards a Process to Quantify the Hazard of Fire Protection Design Alternatives

May 1, 2019
Author(s)
Paul A. Reneke, Morgan Bruns, Stanley W. Gilbert, Chandler P. MacLaren, Richard D. Peacock, Thomas G. Cleary, David T. Butry
There are a variety of fire protection technologies that have the potential to improve life safety in residences including barrier fabrics for upholstered furniture, new nano-scaled flame retardants, or better fire detector technology. However, there is no

Cognitive Biases Within Decision Making During Fire Evacuations

March 8, 2019
Author(s)
Michael Kinsey, Steve Gwynne, Erica D. Kuligowski, Max Kinateder
During a fire evacuation, once an individual perceives cues from a fire event, they must interpret them to assess the new situation and determine whether action is required. It is proposed that this assessment and action selection can employ either an

A Pre-Evacuation Database for Use in Egress Simulations

January 11, 2019
Author(s)
Ruggiero Lovreglio, Erica D. Kuligowski, Steve Gwynne, Karen E. Boyce
Quantifying the pre-evacuation time; i.e., the time between first awareness and deliberate evacuation movement, is a key task for evacuation model users and fire safety engineers. The identification and employment of pre-evacuation data given an incident

Perspectives of Occupants with Mobility Impairments on Fire Evacuation and Elevators

August 15, 2016
Author(s)
Kathryn M. Butler, Susanne M. Furman, Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock
The purpose of this report is to provide guidance for designers, building managers, and fire emergency personnel on how to improve communication, procedures, and elevator usage during fire emergencies, based on a study of the evacuation experiences of

Movement on Stairs During Building Evacuations

June 8, 2016
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Erica D. Kuligowski, Robert C. Hagwood
The time that it takes an occupant population to reach safety when descending a stair during building evacuations is typically estimated by measureable engineering variables such as stair geometry, speed, stair density, and pre-observation delay. In turn

A Review of Risk Perception in Building Fire Evacuation

October 1, 2014
Author(s)
Max T. Kinateder, Erica D. Kuligowski, Paul A. Reneke, Richard Peacock
Risk perception (RP) is studied in many research disciplines (e.g., safety engineering, psychology, or sociology), and the contexts surrounding the ways in which different concepts of RP are applied vary greatly. Definitions of RP can be broadly divided

Movement on Stairs During Building Evacuations

September 25, 2014
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Emily A. Wiess, Jason D. Averill, Robert Hagwood, Enrico Ronchi, Bryan Hoskins, Michael Spearpoint
The time that it takes an occupant population to reach safety when descending a stairwell during building evacuations is typically described by measureable engineering variables such as stairwell geometry, speed, density, and pre-evacuation delay. In turn

Assessing the Verification and Validation of Building Fire Evacuation Models

September 19, 2014
Author(s)
Enrico Ronchi, Erica D. Kuligowski, Daniel Nilsson, Richard Peacock, Paul A. Reneke
To date there is no International standard on the verification and validation (V&V) of building fire evacuation models, i.e., model testers adopt inconsistent procedures or tests designed for other model uses. For instance, the tests presented within the

Stair Evacuation of People with Mobility Impairments

March 3, 2014
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard Peacock, Bryan Hoskins, Emily Wiess
The time that it takes a population to reach safety when descending a stairwell during building evacuations is typically described by measureable engineering variables. These engineering variables include stairwell geometry, speed, density, and pre

Stair evacuation of older adults and people with mobility impairments

October 31, 2013
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock, Emily Wiess, Bryan Hoskins
Engineers analyze occupant movement data for the safety and protection of a population during emergency building evacuations. Quantifiable variables, such as: stairwell geometry, pre-evacuation delay, occupant speed, and population density form engineering

Modeling the Evacuation of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001

January 31, 2013
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill
This paper provides an analysis of the evacuation of the World Trade Center towers culled from telephone and face-to-face interviews with survivors. A decedent analysis explores where occupants were located when each tower was attacked. Multiple regression

Investigation Plan - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Technical Investigation of Building and Emergency Communications System Performance in the Joplin, Missouri, Tornado of May 22, 2011

May 24, 2012
Author(s)
Marc L. Levitan, Long T. Phan, Erica D. Kuligowski, Franklin T. Lombardo, David P. Jorgensen
Following the May 22, 2011 tornado that devastated the City of Joplin, NIST sent four engineers to Missouri on May 24 through May 28 to conduct a preliminary reconnaissance. Based on analysis of the data collected and other criteria required by law and

Building Occupant Egress Data

August 27, 2010
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Erica D. Kuligowski
Data on people movement on stairs were collected from 9 office and residential building evacuations in the United States. The buildings involved in this study range from 6 stories to 62 stories in height. The data were collected by positioning video

Home Smoke Alarm Tests, Test Series 2, Report of Test 4017

May 10, 2002
Author(s)
Jason D. Averill, Richard D. Peacock, Richard W. Bukowski, Paul A. Reneke
This Report of Test documents the second series of full scale tests conducted as part of research into the performance of smoke alarms. The first series of tests, conducted in a manufactured home, consisted of fifteen experiments with instrumentation
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