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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2023/2024

Fire Safety Buildings

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 221-0011/02
Abbreviation PBS
Course title Fire Safety Buildings
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Structures
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Radim Čajka, CSc.

Osnova předmětu

1. Introduction (history of fire safety, legal regulations and Technical Standards).
2. Fire safety requirements (basic terms and procedures).
3. Fire protection of buildings (nonindustrial and industrial buildings) .
4. Partition to fire compartments. Dimension of fire compartments (verification).
5. Fire risk (calculation of fire load, fire safety equipments).
6. Requirement for building construction (testing and classification of buildings materials and products, classification of building construction, constructional system of building, fire resistance, fire risk level).
7. Evacuation (basic requirements, types of escape routes, option of escape routes, design of escape routes, equipments on the escape routes.
8. Fire distances (fire risk area, calculation of fire distances).
9. Equipments for fight-fighting intervention (service roads, fire lift, hydrants, fire extinguishers etc.).

Povinná literatura

1. Buchanan, A.: Structural Design for Fire Safety. Wiley, 2001, pp 444, ISBN 978-0471890607 .
2. Handbook 5 – Design of Buildings for the Fire Situation. Guide to basis of structural reliability and risk engineering related to Eurocodes supplemented by practical examples. Leonardo da Vinci Pilot Project CZ/02/B/F/PP-134007, Luxembourg 10/2005.
3. Purkiss, J.A.: Fire Safety Engineering – Design of Structures. Blutterworth-Helnemann, Elsevier Ltd. 2007, ISBN 978- 0-7506-6443-1.

Doporučená literatura

1. Klote, J.H. - Milke, J.A.: Principles of Smoke Management. ASHRAE, Atlanta (USA), 2002, ISBN 1-88341399-0.
2. Abrahams, J. – Stollard, P.: Fire from First Principles: A Design Guide to Building Fire Safety. SPON Press, 1999, pp. 184, ISNB 978-0-4192-4270-3.