Egress Design Solutions: A Guide to Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning by Jeffrey S. Tubbs and Brian J. Meacham

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Egress Design Solutions
A Guide to Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning
by Jeffrey S. Tubbs

The architect's primary source for information on designing for egress, evacuation, and life safety, Egress Design Solutions, Emergency Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning is written by proven experts on egress issues.

The book covers:

egress solutions in terms of both prescriptive and performance-based code issues
techniques for providing egress design solutions and for coordinating egress systems with other critical life safety systems
historic and recent tragic life-loss fire events

Egress Design Solutions is the most comprehensive book on the subject, written especially for architects.

Contents

Part 1: Background

Building Codes and Regulations
Historic Events

Part 2: Egress System fundamentals

Egress Strategies
Prescriptive Egress Concepts
Supporting Systems

Part 3: Human Behavior and Performance Concepts

Human Behavior Consideraations for Egress System Design
Performance Egress Concepts

Part 4: Evacuation Planning and Design

Evacuation Planning and Crowd Management
Design Solutions

Index
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Egress Design Solutions
A Guide to Evacuation and Crowd Management Planning
by Jeffrey S. Tubbs
2007 • 530 pages • $109.00 + shipping
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