Overview
- Includes FDS+EVAC modified source code for simulating individuals' wayfinding issues
- Describes practical examples of systems that can improve people safety in buildings
- Helps in designing human behaviors-based solutions in architectural spaces
- Offers non-invasive solutions to building heritage safety
- Provides indexes for evaluating safety performance of Building Heritage
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- building heritage safety
- historical theatres fire safety
- evacuation in historical buildings
- human behaviorus in evacuation
- reversible systems for human safety
- intelligent evacuation guidance systems
- behavioural design
- evacuation wayfinding systems
- human behaviours in fire
- quality control, reliability, safety and risk
About this book
This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals’ fire safety in historic buildings. It outlines theoretical and operative issues, based on recent studies and international guidelines.
Firstly, critical issues for Building Heritage fire safety are widely discussed, by including the modelling of human factor and man-environment-fire interference in these architectural spaces. A significant part of the book includes a discussion on emergency modeling and simulation. A source code for representing the fire evacuation process (including man-evacuation facilities interactions) is offered to the reader.
Methods for effectiveness assessment of risk-reducing solutions are provided and tested in a case-study. Being a structured approach to occupants-related problems during a fire in heritage buildings, it offers an innovative methodology and practical examples that researchers and designers can use as a guide when proposing and testing solutions.Evaluation indexes for effectiveness assessment (also useful for future guidelines or handbooks) are included. Readers are encouraged to understand these indexes within the proposed approach, so as to extend their applications and possibilities of how to introduce human behaviors-based solutions in other fields.
Lastly, attention is focused on the proposal and evaluation of low-impact and not-invasive strategies, such as ones based on wayfinding elements. From this point of view, the pros and cons of wayfinding systems are discussed: these are important today, especially for fire-safety designers, because of the ongoing innovations in this field.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fire Safety of Historical Buildings
Book Subtitle: Traditional Versus Innovative “Behavioural Design” Solutions by Using Wayfinding Systems
Authors: Gabriele Bernardini
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55744-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55743-4Published: 26 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55744-1Published: 19 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 109
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Simulation and Modeling, Cultural Heritage