Wood building materials and fire safety (5 cr)

Code: RA00CQ04-3005

General information

Enrollment: 15.08.2020 - 04.09.2020
Registration for the implementation has ended.

Timing: 24.08.2020 - 18.12.2020
Implementation has ended.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 cr

Local portion: 5 cr

Mode of delivery: Contact learning

Unit: Department of Construction and Energy Engineering

Campus: Kotka Campus

Teaching languages: Finnish

Degree programmes: Degree Programme in Construction Engineering

Teachers: Jani Pitkänen

Teacher in charge: Jani Pitkänen

Groups: RAKT19SP
Construction engineering, full-time studies

Course: RA00CQ04

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Objective

You will feel the wood products used in construction for example. manufacturing techniques, standard and storage of container, strength grading, grades and are CE marked.
You will be able to use the products of construction processes.
You can apply rules and instructions on the construction process.

Content

Knowledge of basic (core content)
What are emollients derived from the log and their processed products?
What are the NR products?
What are glued products (eg. LVL, CLT and glulam)?
What are board products?
What are the logs?
What are the other wood-based products (eg. isolations, papers, etc.)?

What are the fire loads?
What are the classes of fire in buildings and fire departments?
By what means the outbreak and development of the fire shall be limited to?

Complementary knowledge
What type of fasteners used in wood construction?
What are the connectors?
What are other than wood-based heat insulation?
What products are used to underlay?
What products are used in air and vapor barrier?

How to prevent the spread of fire to other buildings?
How to ensure the preservation of the structures of load-bearing capacity in case of fire?
What is a functional fire design?

Specialist knowledge
What are the vibration dampers and where to use them?
How to ensure the event of a fire exit?
How do you treat the information the authorities in the event of a fire?
What type of fire-fighting equipment is in use?

Evaluation

Graduation-level know-how and skills
Students can
use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
evaluate information sources critically.
work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
evaluate operations in customer, user and target group situations.
choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.
to apply its own critical field of ethical principles in different situations

Evaluation scale

1-5