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A clear international tendency exists toward a considerable growth in High Rise Buildings construction, due to its impact in the urbanism, economy and architectural of the cities. However, in occasions this tendency has not been accompanied by an increase Fire Safety levels. Also, in view of recent large fires in tall buildings, such as, One Meridian Square (USA), East Tower Central Park (Venezuela), World Trade Center (USA), Windsor Tower (Spain), serious problems for life safety and structural integrity have been shown. The authors present their experiences, methodologies and scientist -...

This book presents an overview of modeling definitions and concepts, theory on human behavior and human performance data, available tools and simulation approaches, model development, and application and validation methods. It considers the data and research efforts needed to develop and incorporate functions for the different parameters into comprehensive escape and evacuation simulations, with a number of examples illustrating different aspects and approaches. After an overview of basic modeling approaches, the book discusses benefits and challenges of current techniques. The representation...