| Over the past hundred years, high-rise office buildings have been evacuated primarily due to fire incidents and terrorism attacks. Due to these incidents, there has been attention given on how to evacuate high-rise buildings more efficiently.; Therefore, this thesis focuses on evaluating the evacuation strategies of high-rise office buildings, with particular attention directed to how these strategies are affected by a building's size and occupant density. It discusses and demonstrates the issue of evacuation time as it relates to high-rise office buildings through the use of an evacuation model, EXIT89, and reviews the resulting times established by the model for each total and select evacuation strategy.; Overall, this research resulted in identifying that there are differences in the performance of the total and select evacuation strategies, with a greater penalty in the overall evacuation case than in the local case (time to get evacuees out of the affected area). |
