Design of safety exit route of public buildings

Abstract

Fire disaster will lead to heavy property loss and casualties. The safety exit routes shall be arranged rationally. A lot of the exit routes in the Chinese public and residence buildings are not reasonable, which would cause the increase of casualties. In this study, the feasible design theory and principles of the safety exit routes in the public buildings were discussed, and numerical simulation on a university office building in Beijing was performed. Some suggestions were put forth to scientifically design the exit routes. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.