Course Details

Building Services (E)

Academic Year 2025/26

BTA011 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / E Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Jakub Vrána, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Services

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289869

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Principles of sanitary equipment design.
  • 2. Sorts of waste waters and designing of drainage systems inside buildings.
  • 3. Water sources for water supply for buildings. Water supply systems and their designing.
  • 4. Domestic hot water supply systems. Equipment for fire-water supply.
  • 5. Fuel gas properties. Gas installation for buildings.
  • 6. Building electric wiring installation, artificial lighting.
  • 7. Electrical service connections, lightning conductors.
  • 8. Problems of designing of thermal comfort in building, overview of heating systems, choice and design.
  • 9. Heat losses of buildings and heat balance.
  • 10. Determination of type and size of radiators.
  • 11. Heat sources and their dispositional arrangement.
  • 12. Equipment of boiler rooms.
  • 13. Pipes sizing of heat systems.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Assignment. Site plan. Drainage – plan of typical floors, section view of fixture drains and stacks.
  • 2. Drainage – plan of basement, pipes sizing.
  • 3. Water installation – plans of typical floor and basement.
  • 4. Water installation – pipe sizing. Gas installation - plan of typical floor.
  • 5. Gas installation – plan of basement, axonometric scheme, pipe sizing.
  • 6. Plan of electrical lighting circuits and electrical service connection.
  • 7. Plan of electrical socket circuits.
  • 8. Heat losses of buildings and heat balance.
  • 9. Overview of heating systems, choice and design.
  • 10. Determination of type and size of radiators.
  • 11. Heat sources and their dispositional arrangement.
  • 12. Equipment of boiler rooms.
  • 13. Submitting of design, credit.