Developing a framework leveraging building information modelling to validate fire emergency evacuation

Wang, Bin, Ren, Guoqian, Li, Haijiang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6326-8133, Zhang, Jisong and Qin, Jian 2024. Developing a framework leveraging building information modelling to validate fire emergency evacuation. Buildings 14 (1) , 156. 10.3390/buildings14010156

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Abstract

In fire emergency management, a delayed execution will cause a significant number of casualties. Conventional fire drills typically only identify a certain percentage of evacuation bottlenecks after the building has been constructed, which is hard to improve. This paper proposes an innovative framework to validate fire emergency evacuation at the early design stage. According to the experience and knowledge of fire emergency evacuation design, the proposed framework also introduces a seamless two-way information channel to embed fire emergency evacuation simulations into a BIM-based design environment. Several critical factors for fire evacuation have been reviewed in relevant domain knowledge, which is used to build virtual characters to test in experimental scenarios. The results are analyzed to validate fire emergency evacuation factors, and the feedback knowledge is stored as a knowledge model for further applications.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	MDPI
ISSN:	2075-5309
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 February 2024
Date of Acceptance:	4 January 2024
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2024 14:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166236

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