Course Details
Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
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).