Original scientific paper
Simulation of a school facility evacuation-The case of the Secondary school “Svetozar Marković“ in Niš
Radoje Branislav Jevtić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0179-1321
; School for electrical engineering „ Nikola Tesla", Niš, Serbia
Abstract
Evacuation of any kind of facility presents a very complex and serious task which can very easily go wrong and have serious, even tragic consequences. The fact that there are a lot of people in a facility makes this task even more complicated and more difficult. Reasons for the evacuation of a facility can be varied, such as fire, overflow, earthquake, terrorism, etc. No matter what the reason for evacuation is, the most important thing is to evacuate occupants to a safe place or safe location as quickly and safely as possible. Schools present a particularly complex facility for evacuation because there are a lot of pupils-children who are difficult to organize even in normal conditions. So, in the presence of fear, stress, and evacuation reason consequences, such as, for example, flame or smoke, complete chaotic behaviour is the only expected epilogue. Furthermore, this task can be even more complicated in the case when the architectural properties of a school don’t provide safe, fast, and easy evacuation. This paper was written to show potential evacuation scenarios and evacuation times in the case of the secondary school “Svetozar Marković“ in Niš.
Keywords
evacuation; school; simulation; pupils
Hrčak ID:
313985
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2023.
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