Course Details

Building Services 1

Academic Year 2026/27

BTA001 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Winter Semester 3rd year

​ BKC-SI Winter Semester 3rd year

​ BPC-SI / S Winter Semester 3rd year

Basic principles of design of sanitary facilities including pre-wall installation, design fixtures assembly, plumbing, and gas installations. The location of installations in buildings.
Basic principles of disposal of waste water from buildings. Hydraulics and design of drainage systems. Design of wastewater and rainwater drainage systems. Control runoff of rainwater. Sewer connections.
Basic principles of water installations. Designing of water installation. Hydraulics and sizing of water installation. Protection against pollution of potable water. Water heaters. Thermal insulation of pipes. Equipment for fire water supply. Water connections.
Basic principles of building gas supply. Types and characteristics of combustible gases. Designing a gas installation pipework. Sizing gas installations. Categories and placement of gas appliances. Gas service lines.
Internal electrical power distribution. Materials for electrical installations. Electrical connections. Conductors.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Ing. Jakub Vrána, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Services

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge of construction systems of buildings, foundations, vertical, horizontal and roof structures, principles of hydrodynamics, basic theoretical knowledge of direct and alternating current.

Aims

Professional knowledge

Students will understand general principles of disposal of waste waters from buildings, potable water, natural gas and electrical supply for buildings.

Professional skills

After subject graduation student will be able to do standard designs of sanitary and storm water drainage systems, water supply systems and gas installations having in mind layout and construction of buildings, further they will be able to design service pipes for these installations.

Qualification

Student will be able to use knowledge acquired in the subject for complex design of buildings.

Basic Literature

Bárta, L.- Doležalová, J.- Maurerová, L.: BT51 Technická zařízení budov I (S), AT01 Technická zařízení budov I. a technická infrastruktura. Návody do cvičení se vzorovými úlohami. VUT v Brně, FAST 2015. (cs)
Čupr, K.: TZB I (S), modul 1 Hygienická zařízení v budovách (cs)
Čupr, K.: TZB I (S), modul 2 Odvádění odpadních vod z budov (cs)
Bárta, L.: TZB I (S), modul 03 Zásobování budov vodou (cs)
Bárta, L.: TZB I (S), modul 04 Zásobování budov plynem (cs)
Dvořáček, K. a kol.: Elektroinstalace v bytové a občanské výstavbě I.II. IN-EL, Praha 1996. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/303315

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to building services and sanitation installation, criteria for the design of sanitary facilities, facilities for concentrating the installation.
  • 2. Assemblies of fixtures, mounting elements for pre-wall installations, traps, taps and mixers, flushing devices.
  • 3. Basic principles of disposal of waste water from buildings, hydraulics and design of drainage systems, materials for drainage.
  • 4. Branch discharge pipes, discharge stacks and ventilating pipes.
  • 5. Drains, connection drains, cesspools.
  • 6. Control runoff of rainwater, rainwater soakaways, protection against flood water, waste water lifting, pretreatment of wastewater.
  • 7. Basic principles of building water supply, water demand, materials for water installation.
  • 8. The location of water supply pipes, generation of domestic hot water.
  • 9. Water connections, hydraulics and sizing of water installation.
  • 10. Boosting, pressure reduction, water supply from own resources, protection against pollution of potable water, pipe insulation, fire water supply.
  • 11. Types of heating gas, the categories and placement of gas appliances.
  • 12. The basic principles of building gas supply, gas service lines, gas installation pipeworks.
  • 13. Electrical installations in buildings, electrical connections, conductors.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Assignment. Situation. Layout modification. Draft of fixtures. Drawings of building services - simplified. Drainage pipes and accessories.
  2. Consultation.
  3. Drainage. Floor plans. Developed cuts of branch discharge pipes and discharge stacks.
  4. Consultation.
  5. Drainage. Floor plan of foundations. Developed cuts of drains including pipe connection. Sizing pipe drainage systems.
  6. Consultation of drainage.
  7. Water installation. Floor plans and water connection, calculated axonometric scheme of water installation. Pipes and accessories of water installation.
  8. Consultation.
  9. Water demand. Pipe sizing of water installation. Proposal water heater. Longitudinal profile of water connection.
  10. Consultation of water installation.
  11. Gas installation. Floor plans and gas service line. Axonometric scheme of gas installation. Sizing of gas installation.
  12. Consultation of gas installation.
  13. Project submission, credit.