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Designing escape routes in buildings

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This paper discusses a design method for calculating pedestrian movement developed by Predtechenskii and Milinski and provides an egress model based upon this work for the evacuation of multistory buildings via staircases with regard to real evacuation tests in high rise office buildings. Furthermore, it briefly compares its predictions with regulatory requirements on means of escape.

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Reference: Ezel Kendik, “Designing Escape Routes in Buildings,”Fire Technology, Vol. 22, November 1986, p. 272.

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Kendik, E. Designing escape routes in buildings. Fire Technol 22, 272–294 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01038241

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