Building fire safety in the far east

Architectural Science Review

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 285-294

  Chow, W K ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Crowd Control; Far East; Fire Safety; Fire Spread

Indexed keywords

EID: 30544436936     PISSN: 00038628     EISSN: 17589622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/asre.2005.4836     Document Type: Review

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