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Evacuation in Buildings Based on BIM: Taking a Fire in a University Library as an Example
As a typical public place, a university library has a large collection of books with heavy fire load, dense population, and large flow of people. The situation of safe evacuation in case of fire is very serious. This study utilizes Revit, Pyrosim, and Pathfinder software to research evacuation of a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9740464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36498326 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316254 |
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author | Zheng, Haotian Zhang, Shuchuan Zhu, Junqi Zhu, Ziyan Fang, Xin |
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description | As a typical public place, a university library has a large collection of books with heavy fire load, dense population, and large flow of people. The situation of safe evacuation in case of fire is very serious. This study utilizes Revit, Pyrosim, and Pathfinder software to research evacuation of a university library. First, a Building Information Modeling (BIM) is constructed based on Revit software in 1:1 scale. Second, the evacuation passage with the highest utilization rate was determined through Pathfinder software. According to the “most unfavorable principle,” the location near it was assumed to be where the fire occurred. Pyrosim software was used to determine the smoke spread, visibility, CO concentration, temperature, and other conditions at each stairway exit in case of fire. Finally, the evacuation situation is compared with that after man-made route planning. The results indicate that evacuation exits 1#, 7#, 13#, 19#, and 23# have the highest utilization rate. The safe evacuation time was 739.275 s, which was shortened to 638.025 s after man-made route planning, a 13.67% increase in evacuation efficiency. Evacuation efficiency can be significantly improved by increasing broadcast guidelines, adding signs, widening staircases, and other optimization suggestions, which can provide reference for the study of evacuation effects in public places and the improvement of the layout of public facilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-97404642022-12-11 Evacuation in Buildings Based on BIM: Taking a Fire in a University Library as an Example Zheng, Haotian Zhang, Shuchuan Zhu, Junqi Zhu, Ziyan Fang, Xin Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As a typical public place, a university library has a large collection of books with heavy fire load, dense population, and large flow of people. The situation of safe evacuation in case of fire is very serious. This study utilizes Revit, Pyrosim, and Pathfinder software to research evacuation of a university library. First, a Building Information Modeling (BIM) is constructed based on Revit software in 1:1 scale. Second, the evacuation passage with the highest utilization rate was determined through Pathfinder software. According to the “most unfavorable principle,” the location near it was assumed to be where the fire occurred. Pyrosim software was used to determine the smoke spread, visibility, CO concentration, temperature, and other conditions at each stairway exit in case of fire. Finally, the evacuation situation is compared with that after man-made route planning. The results indicate that evacuation exits 1#, 7#, 13#, 19#, and 23# have the highest utilization rate. The safe evacuation time was 739.275 s, which was shortened to 638.025 s after man-made route planning, a 13.67% increase in evacuation efficiency. Evacuation efficiency can be significantly improved by increasing broadcast guidelines, adding signs, widening staircases, and other optimization suggestions, which can provide reference for the study of evacuation effects in public places and the improvement of the layout of public facilities. MDPI 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9740464/ /pubmed/36498326 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316254 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zheng, Haotian Zhang, Shuchuan Zhu, Junqi Zhu, Ziyan Fang, Xin Evacuation in Buildings Based on BIM: Taking a Fire in a University Library as an Example |
title | Evacuation in Buildings Based on BIM: Taking a Fire in a University Library as an Example |
title_full | Evacuation in Buildings Based on BIM: Taking a Fire in a University Library as an Example |
title_fullStr | Evacuation in Buildings Based on BIM: Taking a Fire in a University Library as an Example |
title_full_unstemmed | Evacuation in Buildings Based on BIM: Taking a Fire in a University Library as an Example |
title_short | Evacuation in Buildings Based on BIM: Taking a Fire in a University Library as an Example |
title_sort | evacuation in buildings based on bim: taking a fire in a university library as an example |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9740464/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36498326 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192316254 |
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