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Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleNumber of ECTS Credits Allocated
030-0401/03Fire Safety in Buildings2 ECTS credits
Type of Course UnitCompulsory
Level of Course UnitFirst Cycle
Year of StudyFourth Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
BRA47Ing. Isabela Bradáčová, CSc.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The aim of the course is clarify with requirements put on fire
protection of structures from the point of view of territorial planning,
construction and materials. The course makes the student familiar with passive
and also active elements of fire safety in structures. The knowledges can be apply with students in working experience.
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Common optional components are not offered, students of special interest can participate in departmental activities or can arrange consulting hours with lecturer.
Course Contents
1. History of Fire Protection of Buildings (FSB). Legal and technical regulations. Basic notions.
2. Territorial, dispositional and structural requirements of FSB. Assessment of non-industrial buildings. Fire Compartment and fire dividing constructions
3. Fire risk. Average and concentrated fire load.
Fire compartments and spaces without fire risk. Dimensions of fire compartments
4. Level of fire safety. Fire technical properties of constructions (flammability, fire resistance of structures etc.). Possibilities of improving fire technical properties of building materials and constructions.
5. Evacuation routes in non-industrial buildings. Types, dimension, design and equipment.
6. Distances and fire risk areas of non-industrial buildings.
7. Technical devices and provision of fire fighting intervention.
8. Assembly spaces, buildings for dwelling and accommodation – specific requirements of FSB.
9. Buildings for health and change of buildings - specific requirements of FSB.
10. Assessment of industrial buildings. Fire and economical risk. Fire safety devices.
11. Evacuation routes from industrial buildings. Distances and technological devices.
12. Storage facilities for agriculture.
13. New approach of fire safety of buildings (course of specialist

Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Bradáčová, I.: Požární bezpečnost staveb. Nevýrobní objekty. 2. vydání.SPBI Ostrava 2010.ISBN:978-80-86111-77-3
Bradáčová, I.: Požární bezpečnost staveb. Výrobní objekty. SPBI Ostrava 2009.ISBN: 978-80-7385-45-6
Zoufal, R. a kol.: Hodnoty požární odolnosti stavebních konstrukcí podle Eurokódů. PAVUS, a.s. Praha 2009. ISBN 978-80-901181-0-0
Kratochvíl, V., Navarová, Š., Kratochvíl, M.: Stavby a požárně bezpečnostní zařízení. MV GŘ HZS ČR Praha 2010. ISBN 978.80.86640-53-2
Zákon 133/1985 Sb., o požární ochraně a jeho prováděcí předpisy
Soubor ČSN 7308xx a další související ČSN-EN
Decicco, P.R.: Evacuation from Fires (Applied Fire Science in Transition
Series). Baywood Publishing Copany, 2001, ISBN 0-8950-3222-8.
Gagnon, R: Design of Special Hazard & Fire Alarm Systems. Thomson Delmar
Learning, 1998, ISBB 0-8273-8293-6.
Klote, J.H., Milke, J.A.: Principles of Smoke Management. ASHRAE, Atlanta
(USA), 2002, ISBN 1-88341399-0.
So, A.T., Chan,W.L.: Intelligent Building systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Massachusetts (USA), 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8491-1.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures
Assesment methods and criteria
Tasks are not Defined
Work placement(s)
Course does not contain work placement.

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