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Plumbing FF Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for a course on plumbing and firefighting services design. The course will cover: 1) Designing plumbing water and drainage systems, including selecting fixtures and fittings; 2) Designing fire protection systems such as sprinklers, standpipes, and detectors; 3) Requirements include the ability to think practically and having stationery and a scientific calculator. The syllabus will cover topics such as plumbing fixtures, pipe sizing, layouts, sprinkler systems, standpipes, and waterless fire suppression systems.

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Plumbing FF Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for a course on plumbing and firefighting services design. The course will cover: 1) Designing plumbing water and drainage systems, including selecting fixtures and fittings; 2) Designing fire protection systems such as sprinklers, standpipes, and detectors; 3) Requirements include the ability to think practically and having stationery and a scientific calculator. The syllabus will cover topics such as plumbing fixtures, pipe sizing, layouts, sprinkler systems, standpipes, and waterless fire suppression systems.

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DESIGN OF PLUMBING & FIREFIGHTING SERVICES

• Purpose of the Course

Plumbing play a very important role in the development and maintenance of communities. This is an in-demand, profitable career
path and there is no time like today to begin carrier in plumbing. Plumbing do not just design & install and repair existing pipes; they
also maintain new pipes as construction takes place.

Plumbing course can offer you the skills to work in residential, commercial, and public settings. If you work in a big enough centres,
you can choose to specialize in a certain area, such as new installations in commercial buildings. Plumbing can also enjoy the benefit
of year round work and can have excellent opportunities to become self-employed. If this sounds like the job for you, join for this
course today.

Firefighting: This Fire Protection Design identifies the fire protection and life safety design criteria for new facility designs, upgrades,
and modifications to existing facilities and spaces.

• Specific Objectives

 Plumbing Water Systems Designing


 Plumbing Drainage Systems Designing
 Fire Protection System Designing

• Requirements:

1. Ability to think practically

2. An open mind
3. Stationary (note book, pen, pencil etc)

4. Scientific calculator
5. Data book for designing (from academy)

• Syllabus
Plumbing water system
1. Introduction to • Overview of Topic
plumbing water standard societies (IPC, UPC, NBC, etc.)
system

2. Plumbing • Bathroom & Toilet Fixtures.


Fixtures • Water Closets.
• Lavatory
• Bath tub
• Shower Head
• Bidet
• Floor Drain
• Urinals
• Flush Tank
• Flush Valves
• Kitchen Fixtures
• Kitchen Sink
• Dish Washer
• Waste Food Grinder
• General Fixtures
• Abulation Tap
• Electronic flush valve
• Drinking Fountain
• Whirl pool bath tub
• Laundry Trays
• Hose Bib (Water Tap)
• Cuspidor (dental unit)

3. Fittings Pipe fittings


• Elbows
• Tee
• Reducer
• Cross
• Coupling
• Union
• End cap etc.
Special fillings
• Water hammer arrester
• Pressure reducing valve
Valves
• Gate, Globe, Ball, Check, Butterfly, Angle etc.

4. Material • Families of material


• Material used in plumbing
• Schedules of pipe

5. Flow through • Types of flow


pipes • Formula for water & drainage systems
i) Hazen William’s formula
ii) Manning’s formula Examples.

6. Water supply in • Direct system


building • Pumped system
• Ground level tank selection
• Over head or Roof tank or cistern selection by people & fixture method
• Examples

7. Pipe sizing • Cold or portable water pipe sizing


• Hot water pipe sizing
• Minimum pipe sizes for fixtures
• Electrical water heater selection
• Pump selection
• Designing with manual & excel programme.
• Examples

8. Garden water • Design considerations


sprinkler • Example problem
system

Plumbing Drainage system

1. Introduction to • Overview of Topic


plumbing • Types of pipe
drainage
system • Traps
• Slope in drainage system

2. Manhole sizing • Types of manhole


• sizing

3. Drainage pipe • Standard fixture size for fixtures


sizing • Pipe sizing DFU Method
• Example problem
• Vent pipe sizing
• Example problem

4. Storm drainage • Design considerations


system • Example problem

5. Layouts • Water system


• Drainage system

Fire protection system

1. introduction • Overview of Topic


• Standard societies
• NFPA Modules for MEP
• Fire triangle

2. Fire • Fuel classification


extingusher • Types of fire extinguishers
• How to use fire extinguisher
• Recommended systems as per application
3. Automatic • Introduction
sprinkler • Types of sprinklers
stystem
• Types of sprinkler system
i. Wet sprinkler system
ii. Dry sprinkler stystem
iii. Preaction sprinkler system
iv. Deluge sprinkler system
v. Tree, looped, gridded pipe arrangement systems
• Type of hazards or occupancy
i. Light hazard
ii. Ordinary hazard group I
iii. Ordinary hazard group II
iv. Extra hazard
v. Special hazard

4. Automatic • Pipe schedule method


sprinkler • Hydraulically calculated method
system
designing • Number of sprinkler allowed as per Pipe Size
• Sprinkler Head K-factor, Temperature Rating, Configurations & types
• Pump selection
• Example problems

5. Stand pipe • Classification of stand pipes


system • Types of pipes
• Design consideration
• Tank selection
• Design of pump sets
• Fire hydrants (internal & external) selection
• Example Problems

6. Fire detection • Fire Alarm


system • Smoke detector
• Heat detector

7. Stair case • Introduction


pressurization • Design consideration
• Example problem

8. Water less • FM 200 system


system • CO2 system
• Foam sprinkler system

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