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

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2024-01-08

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Wang B, Ren G, Li H, et al., (2024) Developing a framework leveraging building information modelling to validate fire emergency evacuation. Buildings, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2024, Article number 156

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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.

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building information modeling, fire emergency evacuation, serious game, integrated design

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