When it comes to evacuating tall buildings in a fire, not everyone can take the stairs. Here’s what else high-rises need.
- Professor in Digital Construction and Fire Engineering, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Crowd size estimates are part science, part art. When numbers differ, it’s not necessarily because someone is being dishonest.
A fire in a nightclub in North Macedonia is the latest in a long string of such tragedies. Why are nightclubs so risky for fires?
Researchers are using mixed reality technologies to investigate how people behave in in emergency situations. The findings are helping shape disaster responses.
Getting out in a crisis is often harder than it looks. But science can help.
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