Technical and Administrative Assessment of Plasco Building Incident

Shakib, Hamzeh; Pirizadeh, M.; Dardaei, Sadegh; Zakersalehi, Maedeh

doi:10.1007/s40999-018-0283-2

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“…These results confirm some of the causes of Plasco building collapse, including uncertified wiring, lack of safe exit lights, unsafe storage of gas tanks, and weak building supervision and maintenance. 38 Therefore, the inherent safety of the environment in which firefighters operate is important. Observance of building safety and work environment, will improve safety.…”

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Exploring the criteria and factors affecting firefighters’ resilience: A qualitative study

Heydari¹,

Ostadtaghizadeh²,

Ardalan³

et al. 2022

Chinese Journal of Traumatology

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“…A unified management was necessary to keep away people from the hazardous incidentarea. 38 The citizens' high safety culture increases the safety level, i.e., the safety of the living environment and buildings. It consequently reduces the number of incidents and exposure of firefighters to dangerous conditions thus increasing their safety.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the criteria and factors affecting firefighters’ resilience: A qualitative study

Heydari¹,

Ostadtaghizadeh²,

Ardalan³

et al. 2022

Chinese Journal of Traumatology

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“…The fire-induced incident spread causing a pancake-type of collapse of the entire structure. Among the causes it was identified improper maintenance and, lack of a fire safety system in the building (Shakib, Pirizadeh, Dardaei, & Zakersalehi, 2018), Ahmadi et al (2020). In addition, investigations also demonstrated that, although the building was adequately designed to sustain service loads, it was not sufficient to prevent the spread of damage, due to the lack of adequate continuity, ductility, and redundancy of the building (Shakib, Zakersalehi, Jahangiri, & Zamanian, 2020).…”

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Robustness-Based Optimal Progressive Collapse Design of Reinforced Concrete

Praxedes Silva Neto

2023

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Progressive collapse of structures is a cascading failure phenomenon with a failure consequence that is disproportionate to the direct damage of an initiating event. The Ronan Point Building collapse in 1968 triggered the start of research on disproportionate progressive collapse in building structural engineering. Intense research was followed after the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in 1995 and the disastrous collapse of the World Trade Centre after aircraft strikes. Progressive collapse has essentially two distinct features: system- rather than component-level responses, and low probability and high consequences. The majority of existing design codes and standards consider progressive collapse implicitly, by improving the performance of a structure through the specification of minimum levels of strength, continuity, and ductility. On the other hand, existing explicit design procedures largely consist of a component-based design approach. This study proposes an innovative system-based and risk-informed decision making framework for progressive collapse design of reinforced concrete frames. Considering the full spectrum of risk due to initiating events, a novel risk-based robustness index is proposed as a system-level performance criterion for design. From a conventionally designed structure, an optimization pro- cess identifies optimal allocation of resources that results in a robust system. An efficient design frontier is defined based on optimal designs when varying the additional expenses provided for the improvement of robustness of a structure. The efficient frontier is then used to verify the cost effectiveness of the design alternatives in conjunction with the cumulative prospect theory. In order to assist in the decision-making process of progressive collapse design provisions, a risk-cost trade-off framework is proposed. The design framework establishes whether additional resources must be used to enhance the robustness of a structure, and when required, it further identifies the optimal expenses that should be used to prevent potential progressive collapse.

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“…The fire caused 26 people (including 16 firefighters) to die, a further 200 people to be injured, and millions of dollars to be lost. [2829] The first challenges that show after this disaster were poor coordination between rescue agencies and problems in scene management such as people gather on the roads around the scene and resulted in traffic problems; thus, rescue vehicles do not access to the collapsed building. These problems showed public education related to public response and behavior had not enough efficiency.…”

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Morbidity and mortality from technological disasters in Iran: A narrative review

Jafari

Nekoei-Moghadam

et al. 2019

J Edu Health Promot

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Iran as a developing country is at risk of vulnerability to technological disasters. These types of disasters occur frequently in last years and affected thousands of lives. Technological disasters in Iran cause thousands of deaths, thousands of injuries, and millions of dollars’ economic loss in recent years. We searched suitable keywords in national and international disaster databases for gathering epidemiological data in these disasters in Iran. In addition, we searched suitable keywords in scientific databases including Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Knowledge, Scientific Information Database, Magiran, and Irandoc. After screening, only 19 articles discussed challenges of technological disasters in the country. Road accidents, explosions and fires, mine accidents, and railway accidents are common events in the country. After 2015, these types of disaster cause 823 deaths and injuries. Experience of response to these disasters showed that technological disaster management in the country faces too many challenges including comprehensive and prospective programs, weakness of necessary infrastructure for urban management, weakness in group work and interorganizational coordination, lack of coherent involvement of people and nongovernmental organizations, lack of information coverage during the disaster, volunteers in police service presence at scene, and normalization of these events. Due to interorganizational nature of mitigation in technological disasters, it must be developed coordination between various organizations to mitigate these types of disasters.

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Technical and Administrative Assessment of Plasco Building Incident

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

Exploring the criteria and factors affecting firefighters’ resilience: A qualitative study

Exploring the criteria and factors affecting firefighters’ resilience: A qualitative study

Robustness-Based Optimal Progressive Collapse Design of Reinforced Concrete

Morbidity and mortality from technological disasters in Iran: A narrative review

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