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Fire Safety of Buildings and Technologies

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 030-0901/04
Abbreviation POS
Course title Fire Safety of Buildings and Technologies
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Fire Protection
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Kučera, Ph.D.

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

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
Bradáčová a kol.: Stavby a jejich požární bezpečnost.ČKAIT Praha 1999.
Zoufal, R. a kol.: Hodnoty požární odolnosti stavebních konstrukcí podle Eurokódů. PAVUS, a.s. Praha 2009. ISBN 978-80-901181-0-0 
Dudáček A.: Automatiká detekce požáru.2. vydání. SPBI Ostrava. 2008. ISBN:978-80-7385-060-9.
Klote - Milke: Principles of Smoke Management. SFPE, 2002
Ribando R.: Heat Transfer Tools. McGraw-Hill Comp., 2002
Wald. et al.: Výpočet požární odolnosti stavebních konstrukcí. ČVUT, 2005
So, A. - Chan, W.: Intelligent Building Systems, Kluwer Academic Publ., 1999

Advised literature

Cote e al.: Fire Protection Handbook. Vol. I & II, NFPA 2002
Buchanan, A.: Structural Design for Fire Safety. Wiley, 2001