Course detail

Theory of Fire Protection of Buildings

FAST-DH52Acad. year: 2024/2025

Main tasks of fire protection of buildings and influence on town-planning, architectural, material and structural design of buildings, principles of fire protection of civil and residential buildings, main principles and calculation methods of manufacturing buildings. Requirements on used structures and improvement of their properites, structure design with respect to ultimate states, safety requirements appraisal of buildings and technologies. Specific design of tower buildings, design of atriums and breezeways, buildings for people assembly. Design of escape ways, requirements from point of view of interior layout, ways of safety evacuation of people out of burning building. Appraisal and delimitation of fire hazard area and delimitation of vacant spaces between buildings. Fire-fighting equipment.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Entry knowledge

Standards of fire protection, especially ČSN 730802,ČSN 730804,ČSN 730818,ČSN 730810, Building Regulation MV No.246/2001 Sb. (determination of conditions of fire protection), Building Regulation No.137/1998 Sb. (general technical requirements of building constructions)

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

The newest information of fire protection, knowledge acquirement of this discipline, architectural and town-planning conception with respect to fire protection, computer application in this discipline, analyse of fire hazard

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

RUSINOVÁ, M., JURÁKOVÁ, T., BADALOVÁ, M: Pozemní stavitelství-požární bezpečnost staveb. VUT Brno 2002

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1-3 Town-planning principles from point of view of fire protection. 2-6 Typological principles and interior layout requirements of civil and residential buildings from point of view of fire protection. 7-8 Fire protection of manufacturing buildings 9 Analysis of fire hazard 10-11 Computers application in problems of fire protection 12-13 Specific standards of fire protection for example, Flammable liquids, Changes of buildings etc.