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Fire incidents during construction work of tunnels - evacuation aspects

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Summary, in English

The report focuses on evacuation aspects at tunnel construction sites. An introduction provides a framework on what determines the outcome of an evacuation, i.e. the physical environment and management aspects. Analyses of the evacuation conditions for several fire scenarios are performed using a combined smoke spread and evacuation model developed as a part of the project. Finally, general recommendations on how to analyse the evacuation safety in a specific tunnel is provided.

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Document type

Report

Publisher

Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety, Lund University

Topic

  • Building Technologies
  • Other Civil Engineering

Keywords

  • evacuation
  • tunnel
  • fire
  • escape
  • construction site

Status

Published

Report number

3153

Research group

  • Evacuation

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1402-3504