ABSTRACT
The study of fire safety is essential to protect human life and therefore the safeguarding of its heritage and environment. Hence it is very important to do research on this matter. The study of evacuation, particularly in high-rise buildings, due their evident size in altimetry, is keen to guarantee the protection of human life. This document presents the study of evacuation in a building with these characteristics, namely Antas Tower, located in Oporto. With the research we present, in this document, we plan to study the evacuation of Antas Tower based on a prescriptive analysis in accordance with FSE Portuguese legislation, and on a performance analysis using a computational model named Pathfinder and the numerical calculation based on Chapter 2 of Section 4 of the NFPA 2008 Handbook “Calculation Methods for Egress Prediction—Chapter 2 ”, doing the comparison with prescriptive analysis.
