Course detail

Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings

FAST-CH002Acad. year: 2022/2023

Knowledge deepening of fire protection of buildings, mainly the issue of roofed atriums in civil buildings. Complex solution of non-industrial and industrial buildings, public garages, solutions of specific requirements for health and social service buildings, assembly areas, agricultural buildings, storehouses and telecommunication buildings. Basic knowledge improvement about function and design of fire protection facilities.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Petr Beneš, CSc.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will be able to elaborate a fire-safety documentation for complicated productive and nonproductive objects including specific objects. Student also will be able to judge fire and economical hazards for some object.

Prerequisites

Fire protection of buildings - basic knowledge, fire protection of buildings. Theory of building constructions – load-bearing structure systems, vertical and horizontal load-bearing structures, building envelopes, staircases, roofing of buildings, non-loadbearing structure, void infilling elements, floors and surface finishings. Building materials - types and their use in building constructions, specific material properties. Knowledge of urban, architectonic-dispositional, material and constructional design of buildings, especially civil and housing buildings.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

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).

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of this course is to be student ability to design a complete fire protection solution of a building - design procedure and analysis of non-industrial and industrial buildings, including: method determination of fire and economic hazard, requirements for building structure properties, design of escape ways, determination of fire-unsafe areas, fire-fighting equipment.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BENEŠ, Petr, Markéta SEDLÁKOVÁ, Marie RUSINOVÁ, Romana BENEŠOVÁ a Táňa ŠVECOVÁ, Požární bezpečnost staveb, Studijní opora FAST VUT, 2020, ISBN 978-80-7204-943-1 (CS)
KRATOCHVÍL, Václav, Šárka NAVAROVÁ a Michal KRATOCHVÍL, Stavby a požárně bezpečnostní zařízení. Malá encyklopedie požární bezpečnosti objektů a technologií, MV - generální ředitelství Hasičského záchranného sboru, Praha, 2010, ISBN 978-80-86640-53-2 (CS)
KUPILÍK, Václav, Stavební konstrukce z požárního hlediska, Grada Praha, 2006, ISBN 80-247-1329-2 (CS)
Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, Požární kodex norem ČSN 73 08xx.. (CS)

Recommended reading

NYYSSONEN, Tata, On the reliability of fire detection and alarm systems, Helsinki: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 2005 ISBN 951-38-6569-X (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch S , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch S , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch S , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Petr Beneš, CSc.

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

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Petr Beneš, CSc.

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).