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Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Fire safety report.

Knowledge of urban, architectonic-dispositional, material and constructional design of buildings, especially civil, housing and industrial.
Necessity of knowledge from the fields:
-theory of building constructions-load bearing construction systems, vertical and horizontal bearing constructions, external constructions, staircase, roofing of buildings(bearing constructions of roofs and roof covers), non-bearing constructions, openning fills, floors and surface finishings.
-building materials-types of building materials, usage of materials in building constructions, specific material properties.

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1. Introduction, information about the subject. Development of fire protective requirements. Technical standards for fire protection of buildings. The basic terminology. Fire protection theory.
2. Methods of the design and assessment of fire protective arrangements in buildings. Fire risk determination according to the standard ČSN 73 0802. Average and concentrated fire load. Design value of fire load.
3. Fire compartments and areas without fire risk. Fire safety grade. Fire dividing constructions. Fire protective areas.
4. Demands on the fire resistance of building structures. Degree of fire protection characteristics of building constructions and materials (possibilities of improvement of fire resistance)
5. Escape routes – types, number, dimensions, technical solution. Auxiliary escape routes. Building habitation.
6. Fire protective distances. Assessment according to the intensity of thermal flux and possible impact of burning parts on the building.
7. Technical design. Fire control devices. Fire water supply. Fire protection of residential buildings. Building conversion.
8. Fire protective requirements for medical centers and assembly halls. Argicultural buildings. Fire resistance of industrial buildings and objects.
9., 10. Fire risk according to the guideline ČSN 73 0804. Simplified and calculation methods.
11. Economic risk.
12.Escape routes and fire protective distances in industrial buildings and objects. Garages. Fire protection in warehouses and spaces for storage.
13. Lecture of the expert from the specialized firm.

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Regulations and fire protective requirements; main thesis of fire safety of a buildings. Demands for fire protection of residential al and non-residential buildings, including specific requirements for apartment houses, medical, agricultural and stock buildings, public buildings and building renovations.
Fire protective design of residential and also industrial buildings-fire and economic risc, determination of cpombustifility of building constructions; classificatio of flamability; design of escape routes; determination of fire risc spaces; equipments for fire-fighting action.

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

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RUSINOVÁ, M., JURÁKOVÁ, T., BADALOVÁ, M.: Pozemní stavitelství – požární bezpečnost staveb. FAST – VUT v Brně 2002

Požární kodex norem ČSN 73 08xx. Český normalizační institut
EN ISO 13943 Fire safety - Vocabulary.
EN 1991-1-2 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 1-2: Gerenal actions - Actions.

13 hours, compulsory