Methodology to Assess Building Designs for Protection against Internal Chemical and Biological Threats

摘要: Recent world events involving chemical and biological (CB) attacks within critical infrastructure have highlighted a potential threat to buildings their occupants. As result, protecting from CB has become an important design consideration. A methodology been developed provide decision makers with the ability assess multiple building designs for protection against internal release. This includes modeling simulation of contaminant dispersion, quantitative means calculate building’s level, weighted sum, objective optimization selection. paper outlines phases in methodology, focuses on application multizone techniques compare alternatives. The assessment options hospital emergency room is used as illustrative example. Optimal are determined based combination functions buildin...