scholarly journals Analysis of Fire-fighter Access as Protection against Fire Hazard in High-rise Building

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-203
Author(s):  
Niswa Dewi A ◽  
Vinky Rahman

There have been many cases of fire in high-rise building occurring in the world taking a lot of casualties, some of them are the World Plasco Building in Tehran, the Grenfell Tower in London, and the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in Las Vegas. One of the problems that arise in many cases of fire in a high-rise building is the difficulty of access for firefighters to control fire. According to these cases, it is crucial to analyse further the access of firefighter in a high-rise building as protection against fire hazard. The study aims to find out how to assess the reliability of the fire fighting access, water supply, access aperture, and shaft of the firefighter in a high-rise building as protection against fire hazards by using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) which is sufficient to solve the problems of the reliability level of firefighters access in a high-rise building. The result is that the access of firefighter in the high-rise building on the Good level of reliability. Therefore, to improve the results of the reliability value of firefighters access in the high-rise building to be better by giving some design recommendations which according to the requirements of firefighters access. Meanwhile, the researchers can use these results of the study as reference and information for future research.

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2328-2332
Author(s):  
Yong Jun Liu ◽  
Hong Hai ◽  
Li Ming Fan ◽  
Jun Wei Zhang

In recent years, a large number of incidents of external fire spread up high rise buildings happened in the world. One of main reasons is that combustible organic materials, EPS, Polyurethane, etc, are used in external thermal insulation system (ETIS) for energy conservation purpose. In some incidents, fire spread in combustible organic materials couple with that from window to window make it impossible for fire fighters to prevent the external vertical fire spread up high rise buildings and caused severe damage to structures and loss of life and property. In this paper, some typical external wall fire hazards in China are described briefly, and then relative research progresses are presented. Furthermore, some research needs and possible directions of future research are proposed.


Author(s):  
Bernardus Calvin ◽  
Johny Johan

The increasing number of population is increasing every year in the capital city of Jakarta, but is not proportional to the limitations of existing land at this time. Therefore, vertical construction or high rise building is one of the right solutions to overcome these problems. This study aims to identify the dominant risks involved in implementing high-rise building construction projects, obtain problem solving and provide recommendations or appropriate control over these risk variables. The research method was carried out by obtaining literature data from various journals and previous research, validating variables together with experts, distributing questionnaires to the respondents, then the data was processed with the help of the AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method to determine the priority interests of the performance attributes and gives the weight of the rating of the parameter scale used. There are 9 risk categories in this study including safety, health & environment, critical material & supply management, contractor quality, subcontractor & vendor, engineering, project management, financial, human resources and external, which consists of 64 risk variables. The results of the data analysis found 21 variables included in the high risk category. Of the 21 variables, the most dominant risk variable is the design change variable from the owner. Preventive action or appropriate control of this risk variable can be done by the contractor by notifying the owner that the work of the change affects the cost and time of the project, then the process must follow the rules of the contract used, the purpose of the process is that the owner gives SI (site instruction) to the contractor for design changes until it is approved as a VO (variation order) by the owner. ABSTRAKPertambahan jumlah penduduk setiap tahun semakin meningkat di daerah ibukota Jakarta tetapi tidak sebanding dengan keterbatasan lahan yang ada pada saat ini. Oleh karena itu, pembangunan secara vertikal atau gedung bertingkat merupakan salah satu solusi yang tepat untuk mengatasi permasalahan tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi risiko-risiko dominan yang terdapat dalam pelaksanaan proyek pembangunan gedung bertingkat tinggi, mendapatkan pemecahan masalah dan memberikan rekomendasi atau kontrol yang tepat terhadap variabel risiko tersebut. Metode penelitian dilakukan dengan mendapatkan data-data literatur dari berbagai jurnal dan penelitian terdahulu, melakukan validasi variabel bersama dengan para pakar, menyebarkan kuesioner kepada para responden, selanjutnya data diolah dengan bantuan metode AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) untuk menentukan kepentingan prioritas dari atribut kinerja dan memberikan bobot penilaian terhadap skala parameter yang digunakan. Terdapat 9 kategori risiko dalam penelitian ini antara lain safety, health & environment, critical material & supply management, contractor quality, subcontractor & vendor, engineering, project management, financial, human resource dan external yang di dalamnya terdiri dari 64 variabel risiko. Hasil dari analisis data didapatkan 21 variabel yang temasuk ke dalam kategori risiko tinggi. Dari 21 variabel tersebut, variabel risiko yang paling dominan adalah variabel perubahan desain dari owner. Tindakan pencegahan atau kontrol yang tepat terhadap variabel risiko ini dapat dilakukan oleh kontraktor dengan memberikan notifikasi kepada owner bahwa pekerjaan atas perubahan tersebut berpengaruh pada nilai biaya dan waktu proyek, kemudian prosesnya harus mengikuti kaidah-kaidah kontrak yang digunakan, maksud prosesnya adalah dari owner memberikan SI (site instruction) kepada kontraktor atas perubahan desain sampai disetujui sebagai VO (variation order) oleh owner.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
MJ Uddin ◽  
A Adnan ◽  
N Sultana ◽  
MG Muktadir ◽  
SMF Sazzad

Today, most of the cities in the world encounter the phenomenon of high rise building. The growth of high rise building in Tangail pourashava has been considerably increased since the last few years. Though high-rise buildings helped in solving the problem of shortage of land and housing, it also caused many problems in different environmental, structural, spatial, functional, socio-economical, and demographic aspects of the city. Our study was to identify the location of high-rise buildings, to classify these buildings by their uses and to investigate the Structural and functional characteristics of high-rise buildings in Tangail Pourashava. For the study both primary and secondary data were collected, primary data has been collected from field survey and secondary data has been collected from different journals and published and unpublished publications. The study also focused on the existing high-rise buildings safety and security system available in those buildings and made recommendation that the buildings should follow the Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) guidance strictly to ensure all safety aspects.J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 10(1): 125-132 2017


2018 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 02004
Author(s):  
Hendrik Lamsali ◽  
Ahmad Shabudin Ariffin

The Malaysian broiler industry is an integral component of the agriculture sector that generates sustainable food supplies to almost 30 million populations in the country. The industry comprises of conventional and commercial farms for which the latter is more sustainable with contract farming schemes and involvement of major integrators and growers. The survival of local growers as one of the important players within broiler’s supply chain hierarchy is largely depending on the integrators. Hence, this study aims to identify important factors that local growers consider when selecting their integrators. Specifically, the objectives are to prioritize integrators’ selection factors and to determine the critical ranking of each factor that will be beneficial to the local growers. A MCDM approach in the form of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is employed to evaluate and rank the importance of the said factors based on inputs from selected broilers’ representatives. Five main criteria are considered in the AHP analysis that include relationships, reliability, logistics, input and price. The result indicates that reliability had the highest priority, followed by pricing factor, input criteria, relationships with the integrator, and finally the logistics facility. For overall sub-criteria, supplied quantity is ranked number one, followed by price of raw materials, availability of day-old chick, quality conformance, technology sharing, and in-house logistics facility. At the end of the study, future research avenues are suggested.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Yaser Mousavi ◽  
Shahab Kariminia

PurposeThe main purpose of this research is to achieve the evacuation strategy of people in high-rise office buildings. This purpose is achieved by identifying the individuals' behaviors during a fire accident and the relationship between these behaviors and their risk perception.Design/methodology/approachThe method of this study is mixed-methods type. The first stage was carried out using the qualitative method and descriptive phenomenology and the analyses were done using the Colaizzi method, and the second stage was carried out using the quantitative method of field descriptive survey type whose analyses were conducted through SPSS software.FindingsThe results reveal that the individuals attempting evacuation from the upper floors above the fire level were mostly injured and the ones who remained in the building and got help from fire fighters were rescued. At the end, the study goes on to suggest the stay-in-place approach with regards to the behaviors formed in individuals, closed plan of architectural design, lack of suitable fire extinguishers as well as inappropriate individual trainings.Research limitations/implicationsLack of similar research in the field of fire in Iran caused bottlenecks such as lack of cooperation of relevant organizations in the path of the research. Another factor that limited the present research was the determination of people trapped in fire. In this case, those who were present in the incident had to be chosen and the questionnaire was completed based on their opinions. This limited the research for reasons such as the relocation of some people from buildings or their death.Practical implicationsThe practical results of this research can be used in reviewing the rules and regulations of high-rise building fire code. By properly compiling the regulations of high-rise building codes based on this research, human injuries in fire hazards can be greatly prevented. Due to the collapse of the Plasco building in Iran and the creation of inappropriate memories in the minds of people of high-rise buildings, with the construction of buildings based on the rules and regulations in accordance with the fire code, the construction market as well as the sale and purchase of such buildings will flourish and numerous financial and job turnovers are created in the field of this type of buildings.Originality/valueThis study is innovative in determining appropriate evacuation strategy that are related to the individuals' risk perception in high-rise buildings, as well as achieving results to review the rules and regulations of high-rise office buildings based on the high-rise building fire code.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-323
Author(s):  
Zielisa Nur Qadimah ◽  
N. Vinky Rahman

One important aspect of hospital buildings is the safety of the occurrence of fire hazards, especially in the fire stairs. The hospital is classified as very crowded because of the large number of inpatients or outpatients who consult at the Malahayati Islamic Hospital or the University of North Sumatra Hospital, both middle and upper-middle class. Because the density level of occupants in hospital buildings is high, it requires a fire ladder that meets the standards, how to apply the fire ladder reliability system and its future recommendations on the Malahayati Islamic Hospital building and the University of North Sumatra Hospital. This study aims to determine the application and analyze the level of reliability of fire stairs in hospital buildings. This study uses data analysis method, namely AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) which is based on very effective research to help solve problems in the fire stairs reliability system in the case study of the Islamic Hospital Malahayati, the level of reliability is sufficient, while the University of North Sumatra Hospital has a very good level of reliability. Several design recommendations were made and tested to increase the reliability of fire stairs at Malahayati Islamic Hospital and the University of North Sumatra Hospital; the results can be improved.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 184797902094148
Author(s):  
Md. Nazmul Hasan Suman ◽  
Fuad Ahmed Chyon ◽  
Md. Sazol Ahmmed

Electric vehicle (EV) has made a revolution in the automobile industry. The largest automobile industries are moving toward this. Within the next 5–10 years, the world will shift to EVs. Bangladesh is one of the emerging countries in Asia, so it will have great market potentiality. Bangladesh will have a big opportunity for EV business. However, there are some challenges too to introduce a new business model like EV business. In this study, we have tried to analyze the market potentiality and the business strategy in Bangladesh through strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis and analytical hierarchy process to analyze different strategies. These strategies had a feasible solution proved by sensitivity analysis.


Disasters ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
LYNN E. QUENEMOEN ◽  
YVETTE M. DAVIS ◽  
JOSEPHINE MALILAY ◽  
THOMAS SINKS ◽  
ERIC K. NOJI ◽  
...  

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1358
Author(s):  
Mohammad Fikry Abdullah ◽  
Sajid Siraj ◽  
Richard E. Hodgett

This paper provides an overview of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) applications in managing water-related disasters (WRD). Although MCDA has been widely used in managing natural disasters, it appears that no literature review has been conducted on the applications of MCDA in the disaster management phases of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Therefore, this paper fills this gap by providing a bibliometric analysis of MCDA applications in managing flood and drought events. Out of 818 articles retrieved from scientific databases, 149 articles were shortlisted and analyzed using a Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) approach. The results show a significant growth in MCDA applications in the last five years, especially in managing flood events. Most articles focused on the mitigation phase of DMP, while other phases of preparedness, response, and recovery remained understudied. The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was the most common MCDA technique used, followed by mixed-method techniques and TOPSIS. The article concludes the discussion by identifying a number of opportunities for future research in the use of MCDA for managing water-related disasters.


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