The Evaluation of Building Fire Emergency Response Capability Based on the CMM

Abstract

The construction of smart cities is a theme of urban development, and building fires greatly threaten public safety and urban environmental governance, in which fire emergency management is one of the key factors. However, most studies on the evaluation of emergency response capacity ignore the process of improvement, as well as the intelligence and practicality of the results. The evaluation system of building fire emergency response capability maturity (FE-CMM) was innovatively proposed based on the capability maturity model (CMM), including the evaluation index, evaluation grade, evaluation method, and evaluation process. At the same time, a plug-in for evaluating fire emergency response capability was developed based on the building information modeling (BIM) platform. Finally, an empirical study was carried out in combination with the case of a district fire center. The research demonstrates that the evaluation system can effectively judge the maturity of fire emergency response capability, and the established plug-in can preliminarily realize the intelligent evaluation of building fire emergency response capability, which improves the practice and intelligence of the fire emergency response capability evaluation system when fully considering the process of improvement. It has guiding significance for ex ante control and refined management of building fires, thus providing support for urban public safety and environmental governance.

Emergency management capabilities of interdependent systems: framework for analysis

“…First, it provides the general definition and classification of EM capabilities, which are sufficiently general and applicable to different operational contexts and emergency scenarios. Therefore, the study contributes to overcoming the existing lacuna in literature, which focus on application-specific and context-specific classifications of the EM capabilities (Yang and Xu 2011;Yong et al 2012;Zhang et al 2018;Ma et al 2019). Next, it provides analysts with a structured set of tools and guidelines for modeling and analyzing the EM capabilities, which is suitable for multi-actor, multi-sectoral, and cross-border contexts.…”

“…• Generalization: It can be applied to model and can analyze a wide and comprehensive spectrum of EM capabilities under different operational and emergency contexts. Indeed, most of the available classifications of capabilities are not adaptable to different scenarios (Yang and Xu 2011;Yong et al 2012;Zhang et al 2018;Ma et al 2019) while different models and methods for EM capability modeling can only be used for the assessment of specific capabilities (Yang and Zhang 2014;Dohan et al 2015;Ma et al 2019;Alvanchi and Seyrfar 2020). Moreover, it can be used to model highly heterogeneous multi-actor environments, as illustrated by the pilot application.…”

“…As for the study objective, the reviewed contributions mainly addressed risk assessment (Lv et al 2013;Albano et al 2016), resilience assessment (Crawford et al 2018;Bristow 2019), specific capability assessment (Xu 2018;Zhang et al 2018;Ma et al 2019), or models based on GIS applications (Abdalla and Niall 2009;Gagnon et al 2012;Assilzadeh et al 2012). Another stream of literature focused on system development (e.g., technological tools and IT platforms for EM) as in the case of Gagnon et al (2012), who referred to a human-centered emergency response tool (SYnRGY) for measuring and simulating the capabilities.…”

“…Moreover, several other authors have considered the capabilities related to operational coordination (Granåsen et al 2018;Wang et al 2018;Ma et al 2019;Zhang et al 2019).…”

A Pre-Generation of Emergency Reference Plan Model of Public Health Emergencies with Case-Based Reasoning

“…To ensure the accuracy and objectivity of the evaluation results, it is necessary to establish a scientific evaluation index system. We consult the relevant literature [47][48][49] and refer to the practical experience to construct an evaluation index system for the implementation effect of the emergency reference plan. Therefore, H = {Prevention and control of the epidemic (h 1 ), Reduction of property losses (h 2 ) and Reduction of the impact on daily life (h 3 ) make up the first-level indicators}.…”