Course Details

Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings

Academic Year 2024/25

CH002 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Revision: Laws of fire protection, technical standards and codex FP, basic terminology 2. Design of escape ways in balcony houses, fire protection design of roofed atriums. 3. Health and social service buildings, assembly areas, changes of buildings. 4.-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. Safe distances. Technical equipments. Fire-fighting equipments. Fire water supply. 9. Garage assessment - specific requirements for public garages, agricultural buildings, telecommunication buildings. Storehouses. 10. Knowledge deepening about design and function of fire-fighting equipments (exhaust of heat and smoke, automatic extinguishing equipment, electric fire signalisation).

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.Design procedure and FP analysis of industrial buildings. 2.Fire hazard determination, simplified and detailed procedure. 3.Escape ways – types and number of ways, design and realization. 4.Garage assessment - specific requirements for public garages. 5.Design of fire-fighting equipments (exhaust of heat and smoke, automatic extinguishing equipment, electric fire signalisation).