Course Details
Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings
Academic Year 2025/26
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).