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Standard operational procedures (SOP) for effective fire safety evacuation visualization in college dormitory buildings

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The occurrence of accident such as fire in high living density places like in a college dormitory building can cause serious personnel injuries, property loss and social impacts. The aim of this study is to develop a standard operational procedure (SOP) for fire safety evacuation in college dormitory buildings by evaluating fire safety evacuation capacity through simulation and comparison under four different scenarios. This study endeavored to explore a suitable way to simulate the evacuation process in high-density dormitory buildings under a fire situation and to put forward a general SOP to evaluate the fire safety evacuation capacity. The fire evacuation capacity was investigated under four different scenarios revealing that the dormitory building structure, living density and time of fire occurrence are three key factors. The standard operational procedures (SOP) developed in this study is applicable to fire evacuation simulation for college dormitories with reasonable universality.

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  1. Higher-Educational Engineering Research Centre for Intelligence and Automation in Construction of Fujian Province, College of Civil Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, 361021, China

    Suwen Jiang, Chen Wang, Samuel Bimenyimana & Gaojian Zhang

  2. Department of Surveying, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap

  3. Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

    Heng Li

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Jiang, S., Wang, C., Bimenyimana, S. et al. Standard operational procedures (SOP) for effective fire safety evacuation visualization in college dormitory buildings. J Vis 24, 1207–1235 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-021-00761-3

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