In the event of a fire do not use the lift, use the stairs. We have been conditioned to fear using an elevator to escape a fire. But one major London project is trying to change all that. At 22 Bishopsgate in London the designers have set in place a lift evacuation strategy that can cut escape times from the 64 story building to just minutes. The team have done this, not with state of the art pressurised lift shafts, but instead with standard lifts, a bit of concrete and a clever strategy. In this third episode in our fire mini series we look we look at a new concept for evacuation of tall buildings.

22 Bishopsgate presentation and diagrams

GUESTS
MC Hui, fire engineering manager of BCA Logic in Australia
Romain Hourqueig, head of UK fire engineering at WSP.

Catch up on the earlier episodes in this mini series:
FIRE 1: Making Buildings Safer
FIRE 2: Incentivising good practice