Development of Evacuation Safety Verification Evaluation Model for Designation of Fire Assembly Point in the District Unit of Old Wooden Buildings

Abstract

Areas densely populated with old wooden buildings are vulnerable to fire as there is a risk of combustion diffusion among various buildings, and there is a risk of secondary damage from the outside after evacuation inside the building. According to the current domestic system, only facilities that provide relief services to temporary evacuees such as ‘temporary housing facilities’ are designated, so specific preparations and countermeasures are required. Therefore, this study tried to devise a methodology and physical standards for the application of ‘Fire Assembly Point’ in a fire evacuation situation. For this purpose, assuming that a large-scale fire in an old wooden building, it was attempted to determine suitability by checking the heat effect and CO·CO₂ concentration of the relevant area in case of a fire and checking the required safe egress time(RSET) through Pathfinder evacuation program.