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Enhancing Life Safety Provisions in Fire Zones of Buildings


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1 Sathyabama University, Chennai, India
 

Fire accident in building is a threatening one now a day. These accidents create heavy lives and property losses. To find the reasons, frequency and giving protection to all type of buildings became challenges to the professionals. Fire causes different types of losses but in this paper the lives losses and its passive remedy given importance. The statistical data of twelve years from 2000 to 2012 lives losses has been taken as survey, it is analyzed and the results are discussed. This analysis results directs two case studies which are took placed in Tamil Nadu and considered as major lives losses fire accidents. These case studies concluded with solutions. Fire and lives safety aspects in term of escapes routes design recommendations are given here to improve the lives safety in buildings for future.

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Combustion, Fire, Means of Egress, Escape Routes, Fire Rating, Safety Time, Exit Width, Door Width.
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P. Lilly Grace Murali
Sathyabama University, Chennai, India
M. M. Vijayalakshmi
Sathyabama University, Chennai, India

Abstract


Fire accident in building is a threatening one now a day. These accidents create heavy lives and property losses. To find the reasons, frequency and giving protection to all type of buildings became challenges to the professionals. Fire causes different types of losses but in this paper the lives losses and its passive remedy given importance. The statistical data of twelve years from 2000 to 2012 lives losses has been taken as survey, it is analyzed and the results are discussed. This analysis results directs two case studies which are took placed in Tamil Nadu and considered as major lives losses fire accidents. These case studies concluded with solutions. Fire and lives safety aspects in term of escapes routes design recommendations are given here to improve the lives safety in buildings for future.

Keywords


Combustion, Fire, Means of Egress, Escape Routes, Fire Rating, Safety Time, Exit Width, Door Width.