In the event of a fire emergency in the built environment, occupants face a range of
evacuation decisions, including the choice of exits. An important question from the …

The aims of this chapter are to provide methods for the assessment of life safety hazards in
fires and an understanding of the effects of smoke, heat, and toxic fire effluents on occupants …

The behaviour of building occupants in the first stage of an evacuation can dramatically
impact the time required to evacuate buildings. This behaviour has been widely investigated …

This scoping review addresses the role of functional limitations on evacuation performance
of adults in public buildings. Although this topic has been addressed in evacuation research …

People make risky decisions during fire evacuations such as moving through smoke.
However, the reasons behind such risk-taking decisions have not been investigated in …

Evacuation effectively mitigates potential harm for building occupants in case of
emergencies. Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) have emerged as research tools …

Quantifying the pre-evacuation time (ie, the time between first awareness and deliberate
evacuation movement), is a key task for evacuation model users and fire safety engineers …

This paper presents a framework for integrating fire evacuation models into Building
Information Modelling (BIM). The framework is intended to enhance coordination between …

Individual wayfinding decisions are critical for evacuation efficiency in building emergencies.
By synthesizing the increasing volume of relevant literature, this study proposes a theoretical …

This study examined social influence on individual risk-taking decisions during evacuations
through an immersive virtual reality (VR)-based experiment. Participants were asked to …