Course Details

Fire safety during builiding operation

Academic Year 2024/25

NHA063 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-EVB Summer Semester 1st year

Course is focused on expanding students knowledge from fire safety of buildings - especially in relation to operation, management and maintenance of buildings. Learning outcome of course will acquaint student with fire safety of production facilities, warehouses and mass garage, assuming knowledge of the fire safety of non-production objects.
Students will also get an overview about legal and entrepreneurial responsibilities in fire safety, get acquainted with fire documentation of buildings (evacuation plans, alarm directives, etc.) and with incorporation activities under fire danger.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Ing. Petr Beneš, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

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.

Basic Literature

Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, Požární kodex norem ČSN 73 08xx.. (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)
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)

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 (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281632

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1.Fire sections and areas without a fire hazard. Fire protection level. Fire partitions. Fire strips. Requirements for fireproof constructions and their certificates.
  • 2. Escape ways – types and number of ways, design and realization.
  • 3. Safe distances. Technical equipments. Fire-fighting equipments. Fire water supply.
  • 4. Garage assessment – specific requirements for public garages, agricultural buildings, telecommunication buildings. Storehouses.
  • 5. Knowledge deepening about design and function of fire-fighting equipments.
  • 6. Fire safety object with inflammable liquid.
  • 7. Fire safety object for production agricultural production.
  • 8. Duty physical person, duty of law person at fire protection.
  • 9. Compensation for damage physical person and of law person at fire protection.
  • 10.Fire documentation (evacuation plane,alarm directive,etc.)
  • 11.Fire device safety,activity run at fire danger.
  • 12.Qualification technical, training employee,law and duty.
  • 13.Lecture of the expert from the specialized firm.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.-4. Design procedure and FP analysis of industrial buildings.
  • 5.-6. Fire hazard determination, simplified and detailed procedure.
  • 7. Escape ways – types and number of ways, design and realization.
  • 8.-12. Garage assessment - specific requirements for public garages.
  • 13. Credit.