Course Details
Building Services (M)
Academic Year 2026/27
BTA012 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / M Summer Semester 4th year
Introduction to the subject, principles of sanitary equipment design. Drainage systems inside buildings. Water sources and water supply systems for buildings. Preparation of domestic hot water. Gas installation for buildings. Problems of thermal comfort in building. Types of water heating systems. Heat losses of buildings. Type of radiators. Source of heat and their space arrangement. Boiler rooms. Ventilation and air conditioning for buildings.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
Entry Knowledge
Basic knowledge about constructional systems of buildings, fundamentals of hydromechanics, fundamentals of heat transfer.
Aims
Professional Knowledge
The student understands the basic principles of building services systems, plumbing installations, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, and their influence on the indoor environment.
Professional Skills
The student has an overview of basic building services systems and is able to assess their basic function, applications and relationship to the indoor environment.
Professional Competence
The student is able to make a basic assessment of the suitability of building services systems for providing the required indoor environment, taking into account technical, energy and economic aspects.
Recommended Reading
ŽABIČKA, Zdeněk a Jakub VRÁNA. Zdravotnětechnické instalace. Brno: ERA, 2009. Technická knihovna. ISBN 978-80-7366-139-7. Dostupné také z: http://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/mzk/uuid/uuid:6d02fc60-d7a7-11e4-97af-005056827e51 (cs)
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge about constructional systems of buildings, fundamentals of hydromechanics, fundamentals of heat transfer.
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the subject Building Services.
- 2. Principles of sanitary equipment design.
- 3. Sorts of waste waters and designing of drainage systems inside buildings.
- 4. Rainwater management. Water supply systems and their designing.
- 5. Domestic hot water supply systems.
- 6. Gas installation for buildings.
- 7. Problems of designing of thermal comfort in building through heating and air conditioning systems.
- 8. Heat losses calculation.
- 9. Overview of heating system, choice and design.
- 10. Heat losses of building and heat balance.
- 11. Determination of type and size of radiators.
- 12. Heat sources and their dispositional arrangement .
- 13. Renewable energy of HVAC systems.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Design of hygiene facilities, situation
- Design of sanitary drainage system,
- Design of water distribution system and hot water supply systems
- Calculation of heat losses
- Determination of type and size of radiators
- Design of heat source
- Gas piping installation