Course detail

Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings

FAST-NHB070Acad. year: 2025/2026

Knowledge deepening of fire protection of buildings, mainly the issue of roofed atriums in civil buildings. Complex solution of non-industrial and industrial buildings, mass garages, solutions of specific requirements on building for housing and accommodation, for health and social service buildings, assembly areas, agricultural buildings, storehouses and telecommunication buildings. Basic knowledge improvement about function and design of fire protection facilities.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Markéta Sedláková, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Entry knowledge

Fire protection of buildings - basic knowledge, fire protection of buildings. Theory of building constructions – load-bearing structure systems, vertical and horizontal load-bearing structures, building envelopes, staircases, roofing of buildings, non-loadbearing structure, void infilling elements, floors and surface finishings. Building materials - types and their use in building constructions, specific material properties. Knowledge of urban, architectonic-dispositional, material and constructional design of buildings, especially civil and housing buildings.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

The aim of this course is to be student ability to design a complete fire protection solution of a building - design procedure and analysis of non-industrial and industrial buildings, including: method determination of fire and economic hazard, requirements for building structure properties, design of escape ways, determination of fire-unsafe areas, fire-fighting equipment.

Student will be able to elaborate a fire-safety documentation for complicated productive and nonproductive objects including specific objects. Student also will be able to judge fire and economical hazards for some object.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ČSN 73 08xx Požární bezpečnost staveb. Praha: Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví. (CS)
BENEŠ, Petr, Markéta SEDLÁKOVÁ, Marie RUSINOVÁ, Romana BENEŠOVÁ a Táňa ŠVECOVÁ. Požární bezpečnost staveb. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2021. Učební texty vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7623-070-5. (CS)
Vyhláška č. 23/2008 Sb., o technických podmínkách požární ochrany staveb, ve znění pozdějších předpisů (CS)
Zákon č. 133/1985 Sb., o požární ochraně, ve znění pozdějších předpisů (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-ARS Master's

    specialization ARA , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Markéta Sedláková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Revision: Laws of fire protection, technical standards and set of standards fire protection of buildings, basic terminology.
  • 2. Design of escape ways in balcony houses, fire protection design of roofed atriums.
  • 3.–4. Buildings for housing and accommodation, health and social service buildings, assembly areas, changes of buildings.
  • 5.Design procedure and FP analysis of industrial buildings. Differences in assessment of industrial and non-industrial buildings. Classification of construction systems and construction parts. Fire and economic hazard. Fire hazard determination, simplified and detailed procedure.
  • 6. Fire sections and areas without a fire hazard. Fire protection level. Fire partitions. Fire strips. Requirements for fireproof constructions and their certificates.
  • 7. Escape ways – types and number of ways, design and realization.
  • 8.–9. Safe distances. Technical equipments. Fire-fighting equipments. Fire water supply.
  • 10.–11. Garage assessment - specific requirements for mass garages, agricultural buildings, telecommunication buildings. Storehouses.
  • 12.–13. Knowledge deepening about design and function of fire-fighting equipments (exhaust of heat and smoke, automatic extinguishing equipment, electric fire signalisation).

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Markéta Sedláková, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Fire and economic hazard. Fire hazard determination, simplified and detailed procedure.
  2. Requirements for fireproof constructions and their certificates.
  3. Escape ways.
  4. Fire protective distances.
  5. Fire fighting equipment, fire water supply.
  6. Design of fire-fighting equipments (exhaust of heat and smoke, automatic extinguishing equipment, electric fire signalisation).