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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Fire Safety in Buildings I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 030-0512/01
Abbreviation PBS I
Course title Fire Safety in Buildings I
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Fire Protection
Course coordinator Ing. Isabela Bradáčová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Courses:

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).



Literature

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.
Buchanan, A.H.: Structural Design for Fire Safety, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2001, ISBN 0 471 88993 8
Fire Protection Handbook, Volume I, Volume II, National Fire Protection Association, Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-87765-474-3
Buchanan, A.H.: Structural Design for Fire Safety, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2001, ISBN 0 471 88993 8
Fire Protection Handbook, Volume I, Volume II, National Fire Protection Association, Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-87765-474-3

Advised literature

So, A.T., Chan,W.L.: Intelligent Building systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachusetts (USA), 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8491-1.
The Design Guide for the Fire Protection of Buildings. Fire Protection Association 1999. ISBN 1 902790 02-2 .