The frequency and intensity of both human-made and natural disasters are predicted to
increase, and hospitals play a critically important role in reducing injury and mortality rates …

The literature review discusses state-of-the-art studies regarding strategies for smoke control
in high-rise buildings and provides a comparison of prescriptive rules used in several …

Differences in the scope and intent of the contrasting IFC and CityGML data formats entail
that converting the former to the latter results in loss of information. However, for some use …

Effective evacuation plans are essential to protecting workers in the event of major fires in
process plants. However, despite some general guidelines, there is no specific methodology …

This work is a systematic review of optimisation methods for pedestrian evacuations. The
focus is on interventional approaches that seek to improve evacuation efficiency rather than …

Pedestrian evacuation simulation (PES) provides a low-cost and low-risk method to facilitate
safety design and emergency management in indoor environment by describing pedestrian …

Multimodal transportation hubs serve as transfer points with the function of collecting,
transferring, and distributing passengers and play a significant role in the entire multimodal …

Modern multifloor hybrid (MFH) buildings usually have complex structures and intense
closeness, significantly increasing difficulties for the safe evacuation of people in the event …

Today, safety control is considered one of the most important pillars of building construction
processes due to maintaining security in major incidents such as fire, earthquake, and flood …

The aim of this paper is to present a broad perspective on applications dealing with 3D
building models and indoor navigation during an emergency. This is an immense topic …