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The presentation will introduce the students expected evacuee behaviour, decision-making and movement during a response to a fire, and the data-sets available to support the representation of this response within the engineering process; e.g. the application of engineering calculations and evacuation models.
Steve has nearly 25 years of experience in pedestrian dynamics, human
behaviour in fire and evacuation modelling. He has worked for the
Canadian /US governments, academic institutes in the US/Sweden/Canada/UK
and in consultancy. He has been involved in data collection, model
development/application, procedural design, and regulatory development.
He has worked in the aviation, maritime, rail and built environments,
and has also worked in large-scale disasters (e.g. wildfire incidents).
Steve is currently the Research Lead at Movement Strategies and
Industrial Professor of Evacuation and Pedestrian Dynamics at Lund
University, as well being on the adjunct faculty of Universities of
Maryland (US) and Memorial (Canada). He co-authors three chapters in the
SFPE Handbook and was a co-author of the SFPE Guide to Human Behaviour
in Fire (2nd Edition). He has also contributed to NFPA, ISO, IMO, ICC,
NBC and SFPE documents.