Course Details

Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings

Academic Year 2026/27

NHB070 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-ARS / ARA Winter Semester 2nd year

Knowledge deepening of fire protection of buildings, mainly the issue of roofed atriums in civil buildings. Complex solution of non-industrial and industrial buildings, mass garages, solutions of specific requirements on building for housing and accommodation, for health and social service buildings, assembly areas, agricultural buildings, storehouses and telecommunication buildings. Basic knowledge improvement about function and design of fire protection facilities.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Ing. Markéta Sedláková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Fire protection of buildings - basic knowledge, fire protection of buildings. Theory of building constructions – load-bearing structure systems, vertical and horizontal load-bearing structures, building envelopes, staircases, roofing of buildings, non-loadbearing structure, void infilling elements, floors and surface finishings. Building materials - types and their use in building constructions, specific material properties. Knowledge of urban, architectonic-dispositional, material and constructional design of buildings, especially civil and housing buildings.

Aims

Professional Knowledge

The student understands fire safety legislation, the principles of fire safety engineering, and fire safety requirements for industrial and non-industrial, including fire risk assessment, fire-resistant structures, means of escape, fire hazardous areas, and fire-fighting facilities.

Professional Skills

The student is able to assess fire and economic risks, determine fire safety requirements for building structures, design means of escape and fire-fighting facilities, and prepare fire safety solutions for industrial and non-industrial buildings.

Professional Competence

The student is capable of independently developing and evaluating fire safety designs for buildings, integrating technical, safety, and economic aspects while ensuring compliance with applicable fire safety regulations and standards.

Basic Literature

BENEŠ, Petr, Markéta SEDLÁKOVÁ, Marie RUSINOVÁ, Romana BENEŠOVÁ a Táňa ŠVECOVÁ. Požární bezpečnost staveb. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2021. Učební texty vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7623-070-5. (cs)
ČSN 73 08xx Požární bezpečnost staveb. Praha: Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví. (cs)
Zákon č. 133/1985 Sb., o požární ochraně, ve znění pozdějších předpisů (cs)
Vyhláška č. 23/2008 Sb., o technických podmínkách požární ochrany staveb, ve znění pozdějších předpisů (cs)

Prerequisites

Fire protection of buildings - basic knowledge, fire protection of buildings. Theory of building constructions – load-bearing structure systems, vertical and horizontal load-bearing structures, building envelopes, staircases, roofing of buildings, non-loadbearing structure, void infilling elements, floors and surface finishings. Building materials - types and their use in building constructions, specific material properties. Knowledge of urban, architectonic-dispositional, material and constructional design of buildings, especially civil and housing buildings.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/303771

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Revision: Laws of fire protection, technical standards and set of standards fire protection of buildings, basic terminology.

2. Design of escape ways in balcony houses, fire protection design of roofed atriums.

3.–4. Buildings for housing and accommodation, health and social service buildings, assembly areas, changes of buildings.

5.Design procedure and FP analysis of industrial buildings. Differences in assessment of industrial and non-industrial buildings. Classification of construction systems and construction parts. Fire and economic hazard. Fire hazard determination, simplified and detailed procedure.

6. Fire sections and areas without a fire hazard. Fire protection level. Fire partitions. Fire strips. Requirements for fireproof constructions and their certificates.

7. Escape ways – types and number of ways, design and realization.

8.–9. Safe distances. Technical equipments. Fire-fighting equipments. Fire water supply.

10.–11. Garage assessment - specific requirements for mass garages, agricultural buildings, telecommunication buildings. Storehouses.

12.–13. Knowledge deepening about design and function of fire-fighting equipments (exhaust of heat and smoke, automatic extinguishing equipment, electric fire signalisation).

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Fire and economic hazard. Fire hazard determination, simplified and detailed procedure.
  2. Requirements for fireproof constructions and their certificates.
  3. Escape ways.
  4. Fire protective distances.
  5. Fire fighting equipment, fire water supply.
  6. Design of fire-fighting equipments (exhaust of heat and smoke, automatic extinguishing equipment, electric fire signalisation).