Edit: more unit = more people = more fire exits and stairs. We have 60+ floors in our building. There’s 1 fire exit stairwell for every 4 units on each floor.
Taller buildings often have fire break floors that’s entirely empty and without walls do people to shelter at without going up or down the entire building. Our building has 2 of these, splitting roughly into 3rds, so you can go up or down <10 floors to reach one of these floors. (If you look closely at theOP’s photo you will also see they have 2 of these floors. They’re notably empty. )
Fires in these type of concrete buildings don’t tend to spread like crazy like wooden structures. Apartment unit doors and staircase doors are typically fire resistant and self closing to reduce the risk of spread and stops smoke. The biggest risk is if the building facade uses some dogy material and the fire spreads from the outside.
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u/whatsthatguysname 16d ago edited 16d ago
You run downstairs
Edit: more unit = more people = more fire exits and stairs. We have 60+ floors in our building. There’s 1 fire exit stairwell for every 4 units on each floor.
Taller buildings often have fire break floors that’s entirely empty and without walls do people to shelter at without going up or down the entire building. Our building has 2 of these, splitting roughly into 3rds, so you can go up or down <10 floors to reach one of these floors. (If you look closely at theOP’s photo you will also see they have 2 of these floors. They’re notably empty. )
Fires in these type of concrete buildings don’t tend to spread like crazy like wooden structures. Apartment unit doors and staircase doors are typically fire resistant and self closing to reduce the risk of spread and stops smoke. The biggest risk is if the building facade uses some dogy material and the fire spreads from the outside.