Advances in Constructional Engineering

As urbanization accelerates, high-rise old residential areas, due to their long construction history, face significant issues with aging and missing fire facilities, posing serious fire safety risks. The renovation of these facilities faces challenges such as a large funding gap, difficulty in spatial planning, complex facility updates, and challenges in coordinating residents. Fundamentally, residents have limited payment capabilities and lack public revenue; spatially, the dense buildings and narrow passages hinder facility placement; facility updates involve integrating multiple system technologies; residents, due to insufficient awareness or concerns about disruption to daily life, show low cooperation. To address these issues, strategies such as diversified financing, spatial optimization, technological innovation, and communication coordination are proposed to enhance fire safety in high-rise old residential areas, providing a reference for similar renovation projects.

High-rise old residential areas; Fire facilities; Renovation difficulties; Solutions; Fire safety