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- Contributos para a Taxonomia da gestão de riscoPublication . Nogueira, Nuno; Cadete Pires, Cristina Maria Paulo; Doutor Luis Ferreira, Prof.; Ascenso, Raquel; Veiga, Rui
- Emergency evacuation of people with disabilitiesPublication . Veiga, Rui; Cadete Pires, Cristina Maria PauloEmergency evacuation is one of the basic strategies to ensure the safest and most efficient evacuation of people. In this context, it is necessary to understand how humans react to the threat and the influence of other factors in the evacuation. Evacuation routes and emergency exits shall be clearly signed. Emergency assistance must be designed in such a way that disable people can be assisted in a safe way. This process involves emotion and cognition, which needs to be coordinated with the physical condition and limitations of the occupants. Based on the literature, it was possible to compare the simultaneous evacuation of individuals with disabilities (physical or mental) with people without any limitation, and to conclude that individuals with disabilities significantly delay the evacuation process. The impact of building conditions where individuals with disabilities live on the evacuation plan was characterized by a case study according to the Technical Regulation of Fire Safety. The evacuation time was calculated based on the Spanish technical note NTP 436 as well as in the amendment accepted by Miguel (2012) for the evacuation time. Moreover, multiple conditions were defined to minimize the consequences of these emergencies and to protect the human life. Our goal in the future is to continue this study by using the simulacrum to explore occupant’s decision making and escape behavior and to calculate the real evacuation times and compare these results with the ones described in the literature.
- Modified fire load determination in buildings Methods, results and selection criteriaPublication . Cadete Pires, Cristina Maria Paulo; Veiga, RuiThe determination of the risk classification categories, applicable to the uses type-XI «libraries and archives» and XII «industrial, manufactories and warehouses» involves the modified fire load calculation, which can be implemented through two methods to be used indistinctly by the technician: deterministic and probabilistic. This study conducted in the fire safety area, aims to investigate the calculation results of the modified fire load by the two methods and the classification of the UT. The calculations were made based on a real UT with defined activities and materials. Obtaining different values in UT XII, determine contradictory categories of risk, which will detract from the technical conditions required by the regulation to UT. The results led us to conclude that the legislator who hasn’t define which method to use and thereby leaves to the discretion of each technician the selection and consequently the risk category determination of the UT, cannot achieve the goal it has set in RJ-SCIE: the standardization of the demanded level in implementation of measures SCIE.