Main principles of fire safety in buildings.

Fire safety in non-industrial and in industrial buildings, including special focus on residential buildings.

The meaning of dividing buildings into smaller units, into fire compartments. The amount of fire risk depending on the purpose of the room, operation. Fire risk of fire compartment, sources of fire load. Fire safety assessment of building structures. Class of reaction to fire of building materials. Fire resistance of building structures. Increase of fire resistance of building structures. Escape options for occupants of a building at risk of fire. Fire dangerous area around burning building. Fire-fighting equipment.

The student will have an overview of the disciplines of building assessment from a fire safety perspective. In the light of the acquired knowledge, the student will be able to better design a building to meet the fire safety requirements, especially in regard to the fire resistance of its structure and escape routes.

Lecture syllabus

1. Introduction to fire safety of buildings, importance of the subject in terms of protection of persons and property. Risk to persons in case of fire, health aspects.
2. Theory of fire, behaviour of the most important materials in fire.
3. Basic tasks in solving fire safety of a specific building.
4. Fire compartments. Principles of dividing buildings into fire compartments, fire separating structures.
5. Fire load of a specific room depending on its purpose, fire risk of the whole fire compartment.
6. Fire compartments without fire risk, fire compartment with high fire risk. Occurrence, measures.
7. Class of reaction to fire of building materials – Euroclass. Method of determination. Importance of Euroclass determination for the use of a building element in a structure.
8. Fire resistance of structures. Limited states.
9. Assessment of building structures from the point of view of fire safety. Load-bearing structures, fire separating structures.
10. Escape roads from the burning building. Level of escape from the building, equipment of escape routes.
11. Stand-off distances, fire dangerous area around a burning building.
12. Fire-fighting intervention, fire water supply, fire extinguishers, other technical and technological equipment.
13. Buildings for dwelling and lodging – specific issues. Practical examples of fire safety equipment in buildings.

Seminars syllabus:

1. Structural, material and layout design of the building, the basis for ensuring the fire safety of the building. Practical examples of designs.
2. Principles for dividing the building into fire compartments. Application to a specific building.
3. Fire load in different rooms according their purpose.
4. Fire risk in fire compartment.
5. Determination of requirements for fire resistance of structures.
6. Determination of the actual fire resistance of building structures
7. Escape roads, assessment in a specific building.
8. Stand-off distances and fire dangerous area – influence of radiation, falling of burning parts.
9. Fire water supply, fire extinguishers.
10. Assessment of the technical equipment of the building in regard to fire safety.
11. Options for providing fire intervention, building-specific applications.
12. Building for dwelling, practical approach for solving.
13. Credits.