This Technical Report is intended to provide information to designers, regulators and fire safety professionals
on the engineering methods available for evacuation strategies in relation to the evaluation of life safety
aspects of a fire safety engineering design. Information is presented on the evaluation, quantification and
management of occupant behaviour, particularly escape behaviour, during a fire emergency.
This Technical Report addresses the parameters that underlie the basic principles of designing for life safety
and provides information on the processes, assessments and calculations necessary to determine the location
and condition of the occupants of the building, with respect to time.
This Technical Report provides information on methods for the quantification of the different aspects of human
evacuation behaviour in a design context. It is intended for use together with the parts of ISO/TR 13387 and
associated guidance documents and standards. These provide some of the information useful in performing a
life safety evaluation and a means for incorporating the results of the life safety evaluation into the wider
aspects of a fire safety engineering design.
The use of lifts (elevators) in emergency evacuations is not dealt with in this Technical Report.