Fire evacuation and patient assistance simulation in a large hospital building

This research studied the fire evacuation simulation and patient assistance who were unable to help themselves out a hospital building. The studied building is a high and large building as Thai law which was 10^th floors on 90,842.18 square meters and able to accommodate 4,017 occupants that calculated by the NFPA 101 standard which simulated from 3 evacuation cases. The experiment result found that all people can be moved out from the building within 3,048 seconds, 2,931 seconds, and 2,958.3 seconds respectively which didn’t over than the standard as High Building Controlled under Thai Law. The reason that time-limited needed as 1 hour when transferred the people out of the building because enhance the safety of people, especially critically ill patients. Thus, the researchers suggested more channels of evacuation through the elevators by testing for 2 situations. The result of 2situations showed that this method can be decreased the fire evacuation frill time as 2,073 seconds and 1,979.5 seconds respectively.