What alternative means of vertical escape are available to people in a wheelchair or with other disabilities that affect mobility?
The development of “Accessible Means of Escape design”, a way out of a building or structure, that provide route choices for vertical escape in a enhanced stair enclosure, maximizes safety and usability for all people, including the elderly and severe mobility impaired persons in an emergency. This egress design incorporates the facility of multiple escape chute system inside the enhanced staircase enclosure. The stair enclosure is constructed in accordance to local fire code that provides protection from fire effects for evacuees so that it can be used safely for egress. When fire occurs, severe mobility impaired people and the disabled will have to make their way, assist or unassisted, and take temporary refuge inside this stair enclosure while waiting for rescue. They can either choose to use the chute inside the stair enclosure that would get them to the ground floor more quickly or to be assisted by helpers down the stairs. Presently, it is non mandatory for building owner to prov
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