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Fire Safety of the Buildings II

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 030-0624/01
Abbreviation PBS II
Course title Fire Safety of the Buildings II
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Fire Protection
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Kučera, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Principles of fire safety of buildings (FSB) of industrial buildings (Legal and technical regulations, specifics, basic concepts).
2. General, territorial, dispositional and structural requirements of FSB. Assessment of industrial buildings. Fire compartments and fire dividing structures.
3. Fire risk. Average and concentrated fire load. Duration of the fire.
4. Economic risk. Damage caused by fire. Fire compartments and areas without fire risk.
5. 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.
6. Evacuation routes in industrial buildings. Types, dimension, design and equipment.
7. Distances and fire risk areas of industrial buildings and technological equipments.
8. Technical and technological equipments (inside and outside the building). Cable distribution.
9. Firefighting intervention.
10. Warehouses and buildings for agriculture.
11. Specifics of fire safety in the chemical and engineering industries.
12. Fire safety management. Engineering approaches to fire protection of industrial fire protection.
13. New approach of fire safety of buildings (course of specialist).
14. Reserve.

E-learning

Study materials are provided electronically at the beginning of the semester.

Literature

Zalosh, R.G. Industrial Fire Protection Ingineering. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2003. ISBN 0-471-49677-4.
Thomson, N. Fire hazards in industry. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002. ISBN 0-7506-5321-3 .

Advised literature

Standards - EN, BS, NFPA, DIN