NIST data: Enabling the technical-basis for evacuation planning of high-rise buildings
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 16:21
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are stepping up the pace for designing safer building evacuations by releasing large, numerical data sets that track the movement of people on stairs during high-rise building evacuation drills. The data sets will ensure that architects, engineers, emergency planners and others involved in building design have a strong technical basis for safer, more cost-effective building evacuations.