Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	EP/D507790/1
Title:	HEED: Development of the High-rise Evacuation Evaluation Database based on data arising from the WTC disaster
Principal Investigator:	Galea, Professor E
Other Investigators:	Shields, Professor TJ Canter, Professor D
Researcher Co-Investigators:	Dr K Boyce Dr P Lawrence
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Department:	Sch of Computing and Maths Sci
Organisation:	University of Greenwich
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 November 2005	Ends:	30 April 2008	Value (£):	1,254,789
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Building Ops & Management
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Construction
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The evacuation of the WTC complex represent the largest full-scale evacuation of people in modern times. The survivors hold a tremendous amount of invaluable information concerning their experiences of the conditions within the structures and the evolving evacuation scenario. This information will be instrumental in shaping our building codes and standards, building design practice and building management procedures for years to come. Furthermore, the information collected would be invaluable in assisting the development of behaviour models that are key components of evacuation models used in performance based building design. Consequently this project will collect the human experience data arising from the WTC disaster through face to face interviews and questionnaires and structure it in a manner that will be accessible for future research and to take the first steps in using this information to shape our building regulations and building evacuation models. This will involve, 1) the development of an appropriate data retrieval system to enable the capture of the available data, 2) the development of an interactive relational database structure that will allow rapid and easy access to the information, 3) preliminary analysis of the collected information to identify some of the key issues that influence building evacuation and finally, to use this information to identify current weaknesses in evacuation modelling technology and to define the new algorithms that addresses these requirements.
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