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Al-Otaibi, N T N H (1995) A knowledge-based systems approach to materials management for large construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Chen, Y (2017) Factors affecting safety performance of construction workers: Safety climate, interpersonal conflicts at work, and resilience, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
El-Gohary, N (2008) Semantic process modelling and integration for collaborative construction and infrastructure development, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
El-Sabek, L M (2017) Framework for managing integration challenges of production planning and control in international construction mega-projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto.
Hyde, R A (1999) Educating engineers for environmentally sensitive practice, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Kinawy, S N (2017) Customizing information delivery for citizens in transportation infrastructure projects: Towards active community participation in decision-making, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Mahpour, A (2022) The application of data science to highway asset management investment strategies, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Milani, B (2005) Building materials in a green economy: Community-based strategies for dematerialization, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto.
Mirahadi, S (2020) EvacuSafe: A smart evacuation management system for buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: complexity; population; dwellings; building information modelling; decision making; industry foundation classes; simulation; building design; evacuation
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- URL: https://www.proquest.com/docview/2425645909
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Tall buildings and their occupants are highly sensitive to emergencies. Decision-making in these situations is complicated due to high population densities residing in these dwellings, complexity of emergency management strategies, significance of quick response in these cases, and unknown reactions of occupants under stress. This research develops an evacuation management system (EMS), named EvacuSafe, to support decision-making and crowd handling during evacuations. EvacuSafe supports a fully automated process of detecting the fire, simulating the growth pattern of the hazard, generating multiple strategies of evacuation, evaluating the strategies based on the risk to evacuees, and finally guiding evacuees along their egress route. EvacuSafe’s architecture consists of the three main modules of fire dynamics simulation, agent-based crowd simulation, and graph search path-planning. EvacuSafe is model-centric, and the entire data storage and data transfer between its three modules are based on Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). By integrating BIM, agent-based crowd simulation, and fire simulation, EvacuSafe enables a performance-based evaluation of building evacuations for different building designs. In real-time mode, EvacuSafe converts BIM to a Geometric Network Graph (GNG) and performs path-planning and guidance during emergencies. In addition, the guidance system in EvacuSafe is based on the application of Adaptive Dynamic Signage System (ADSS). This research aims for a smart emergency management system that will be less restricted by human factors and more efficient in saving the lives of occupants in emergencies.
Naji Almassi, A (2011) Credit value adjusted real options based valuation of multiple-exercise government guarantees for infrastructure projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Nik Bakht, M (2015) Analyzing social network discussions of infrastructure projects: towards a bottom-up decision making environment, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Rodrigues Aragao, R (2018) Using network theory to manage knowledge from unstructured data in construction projects: Application to a collaborative analysis of the energy consumption in the construction of oil and gas facilities, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Tang, Z (2005) Developing complete conditional probability tables from fractional data for Bayesian belief networks in engineering decision making, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Tsenkova, S (1998) Private housebuilding and housing markets in transitional economies: The case of Bulgaria, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Zachariah, J-A L (2003) Towards sustainable homes through optimization: An approach to balancing life cycle environmental impacts and life cycle costs in residential buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Zangeneh, P (2021) Knowledge representation and artificial intelligence for management of socio-technical risks in megaprojects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Zhang, J (2010) A social semantic web system for coordinating communication in the architecture, engineering & construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).