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Fire Safety of the Building

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Course Unit Code030-0597/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Fourth 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
BEB20Ing. Petr Bebčák, Ph.D.
KUC05doc. Ing. Petr Kučera, Ph.D.
KLE106Ing. Jakub Klezla
Summary
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.
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:
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.
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
Zákon 133/1985 Sb., o požární ochraně a jeho prováděcí předpisy
Soubor ČSN 7308xx a další související ČSN-EN
Recommended Reading:
So, A.T., Chan,W.L.: Intelligent Building systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachusetts (USA), 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8491-1.
Kratochvíl, V., Navarová, Š., Kratochvíl, M.: Stavby a požárně bezpečnostní zařízení. MV GŘ HZS ČR Praha 2010. ISBN 978.80.86640-53-2
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, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit40 15
        ExaminationExamination60 36