Course detail

Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings

FAST-NHB048Acad. year: 2026/2027

Knowledge deepening of fire protection of buildings, mainly the issue of roofed atriums in civil buildings. Complex solution of non-industrial and industrial buildings, public garages, solutions of specific requirements 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, English

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Petr Beneš, CSc.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

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

BENEŠ, Petr, Markéta SEDLÁKOVÁ, Marie RUSINOVÁ, Romana BENEŠOVÁ a Táňa ŠVECOVÁ, Požární bezpečnost staveb, Studijní opora FAST VUT, 2020, ISBN 978-80-7204-943-1 (CS)
KRATOCHVÍL, Václav, Šárka NAVAROVÁ a Michal KRATOCHVÍL, Stavby a požárně bezpečnostní zařízení. Malá encyklopedie požární bezpečnosti objektů a technologií, MV - generální ředitelství Hasičského záchranného sboru, Praha, 2010, ISBN 978-80-86640-53-2 (CS)
KUPILÍK, Václav, Stavební konstrukce z požárního hlediska, Grada Praha 2006 ISBN 80-247-1329-2 (CS)
Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, Požární kodex norem ČSN 73 08xx.. (CS)

Recommended reading

. BUCHANAN, Andrew, H., ANTHONY, Abu, K.: Structural Design for Fire Safety, 2nd edition. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2017. ISBN 9781118700396. 415 s. (EN)
HARLEY, Morgan, J.: SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, Vol. 1, 5th edition. London: Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4939-2564-0. 1142 s. (EN)
HARLEY, Morgan, J.: SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, Vol. 2, 5th edition. London: Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4939-2564-3. 2307 s. (EN)
ISO 834-1:1999/Amd 2:2021. Fire resistance test – Elements of building construction – Part 1: General (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPA-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Petr Beneš, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1. Revision: Laws of fire protection, technical standards and codex FP, basic terminology.
  • 2. Design of escape ways in balcony houses, fire protection design of roofed atriums.
  • 3. Health and social service buildings, assembly areas, changes of buildings.
  • 4.–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. Safe distances. Technical equipments. Fire-fighting equipments. Fire water supply.
  • 9. Garage assessment – specific requirements for public garages, agricultural buildings, telecommunication buildings. Storehouses.
  • 10. Knowledge deepening about design and function of fire-fighting equipments (exhaust of heat and smoke, automatic extinguishing equipment, electric fire signalisation).

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Petr Beneš, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1. Design procedure and FP analysis of industrial buildings.
  • 2. Fire hazard determination, simplified and detailed procedure.
  • 3. Escape ways – types and number of ways, design and realization.
  • 4. Garage assessment - specific requirements for public garages.
  • 5. Design of fire-fighting equipments (exhaust of heat and smoke, automatic extinguishing equipment, electric fire signalisation).