Course Details

Building Services (E)

Academic Year 2022/23

BT005 course is part of 1 study plan

B-P-C-SI (N) / N Summer Semester 3rd year

Introduction to the subject, principles of sanitary equipment design. Drainage systems inside buildings. Water sources for buildings, water supply systems. Domestic hot water supply systems. Gas installation for buildings. Electrical equipment.
Problems of thermal comfort in buildings. Types of water heating systems. Heat losses for buildigs and heat balance. Type of radiators. Heat sources and their space arrangement. Boiler rooms of the central heating. Hydraulics of heating systems.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Student obtains overview of plumbing systems, electrical equipments and heating systems of building.

Aims

Overview of plumbing systems. Bases of electrotechnics. Bases of heating systems.

Syllabus

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

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge about constructional systems of buildings, fundamentals of hydromechanics, fundamentals of water supply and sewerage, basic theoretic knowledge of direct and alternating current, fundamentals of heat transfer.

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

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

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

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

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Assignment. Site plan. Drainage - plan of typical floors, section view of fixture drains and stacks.
Drainage - plan of basement, pipes sizing.
Water installation - plans of typical floor and basement.
Water installation - pipe sizing. Gas installation - plan of typical floor.
Gas installation - plan of basement, axonometric scheme, pipe sizing.
Plan of electrical lighting circuits and electrical service connection.
Plan of electrical socket circuits.
Heat losses of buildings and heat balance.
Overview of heating systems, choice and design.
Determination of type and size of radiators.
Heat sources and their dispositional arrangement.
Equipment of boiler rooms.
Submitting of design.