Evacuation Modelling in New Zealand the Result of An Online Survey

Abstract

This change has occurred also in New Zealand. In fact, fire engineering has experienced major changes in New Zealand in the last five years with the introduction of the 2012 edition of the Building Code [1]. The C/VM2 Verification Method [2] represents a compromise between a prescriptive approach and a novel performance-based approach by providing several prescriptive inputs for fire and evacuation modelling and provide a novel ‘Framework for Fire Safety Design’. The performance approach relies on the comparison ASET and RSET, where ASET stands for Available Safe Egress Time while RSET stands for Required Safe Egress Time [3]. As such, fire engineers are asked to predict and model several fire and evacuation scenarios to ensure that the RSET is greater than the ASET.