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People hear about disasters that affect the whole world daily from various media sources. These disasters include natural disasters, disasters caused by mankind or a combination of the two. This includes the war that is happening in Ukraine. Many disasters can cause a fire to occur in buildings. With any fire in a building, a safe evacuation of people must be ensured. Thus, it is important to design buildings so that when people are evacuating, they are safe. Escape routes must ensure that all people can get to a ...

Every fire generates smoke and heat. The arising smoke and heat have a significant impact on human health and life inside a fire-affected area. In real situations, two basic situations can occur. In the first situation, smoke and heat are extracted outside, usually using smoke and heat removal equipment. In the second situation, where the smoke and heat removal device is not installed, smoke and heat accumulate inside the room without their removal outside. Although the situation where smoke accumulates inside an ...

When a fire occurs, heat and smoke are generated. This has a great impact on the human body. When there is smoke and heat, it has an impact on a fast evacuation. That?s why every fire escape route plan is trying to secure the safe evacuation of people with a minimal chance of an injury caused by fire. That?s why escape routes are planned to be safe and always have good ventilation. In this day and age it is possible, with the approved standards in the Czech Republic, to put sufficient natural ventilation through t...