Enhancing fire safety with Improved Risk Index and BIM in building evacuation
Jingqi Zhang,
Shaohua Jiang,
Xiaomin Qi
Abstract:PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to conduct a comprehensive study on building, fire and evacuation, so as to effectively improve the efficiency of building fire evacuation and the management level of fire evacuation site. Make up for the difficulties of BIM technology in effectively connecting building information and fire data.Design/methodology/approachFirst, this paper establishes a fire model and an evacuation model based on BIM information. Then, the safety index (SI) is introduced as a comprehensive i… Show more
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