Course Details

Building Services 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BTA001 course is part of 4 study plans

​ BPA-SI Winter Semester 3rd year

​ BPC-SI / S Winter Semester 3rd year

​ BPC-MI Winter Semester 3rd year

​ BKC-SI Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Jakub Vrána, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Services

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289627

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to building services and sanitation installation, criteria for the design of sanitary facilities, facilities for concentrating the installation.
  • 2. Assemblies of fixtures, mounting elements for pre-wall installations, traps, taps and mixers, flushing devices.
  • 3. Basic principles of disposal of waste water from buildings, hydraulics and design of drainage systems, materials for drainage.
  • 4. Branch discharge pipes, discharge stacks and ventilating pipes.
  • 5. Drains, connection drains, cesspools.
  • 6. Control runoff of rainwater, rainwater soakaways, protection against flood water, waste water lifting, pretreatment of wastewater.
  • 7. Basic principles of building water supply, water demand, materials for water installation.
  • 8. The location of water supply pipes, generation of domestic hot water.
  • 9. Water connections, hydraulics and sizing of water installation.
  • 10. Boosting, pressure reduction, water supply from own resources, protection against pollution of potable water, pipe insulation, fire water supply.
  • 11. Types of heating gas, the categories and placement of gas appliances.
  • 12. The basic principles of building gas supply, gas service lines, gas installation pipeworks.
  • 13. Electrical installations in buildings, electrical connections, conductors.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Entering, situation, treatment dispositions sanitary facilities.
  • 2. Draft of fixtures.
  • 3. Pipes and accessories of drainage - laboratory of building services, drawings of building services.
  • 4. Sizing pipe drainage systems.
  • 5. Floor plans, developed cuts of branch discharge pipes and discharge stacks.
  • 6. Floor plan of foundations and drainage connection, developed cuts of drains including pipe connections.
  • 7. Pipes and accessories of water installation – laboratory of building services, calculation of water demand.
  • 8. Floor plans (water installation) and water connections, isometric scheme of water installation.
  • 9. Longitudinal profile of water connection, pipe sizing of water installation
  • 10. Proposal water heater.
  • 11. Design and installation of gas appliances, floor plans (gas installation) and gas service line, isometric scheme of gas installation.
  • 12. Longitudinal profile gas service line, gas installation sizing.
  • 13. Submission project, credit.