COURSE TITLE:

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 centers, 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 selfemployed. 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

1. Plumbing Water Systems Designing

2. Plumbing Drainage Systems Designing
3. Fire Protection System Designing

Requirements:

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5.

Ability to think practically

An open mind
Stationary (note book, pen, pencil etc)
Scientific calculator
Data book for designing (from academy)

Syllabus
Plumbing water system
1. Introduction to plumbing water system
Overview of Topic standard societies (IPC, UPC, NBC, etc.)
2.

Plumbing Fixtures
Bathroom & Toilet 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.

5.

Materia
Families of material
Material used in plumbing
Schedules of pipe
Flow through pipes
Types of flow
Formula for water & drainage systems

i) Hazen Williams formula

ii) Mannings formula Examples.
6. Water supply in building

Direct system
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 sprinkler system

Design considerations
Example problem

Plumbing Drainage system

1.

Introduction to plumbing drainage system

Overview of Topic
Types of pipe
Traps
Slope in drainage system

2.

3.

Manhole sizing
Types of manhole
sizing
Drainage pipe sizing
Standard fixture size for fixtures
Pipe sizing DFU Method
Example problem
Vent pipe sizing

Example problem

4.

Storm drainage
system
Design considerations
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 extinguisher
Fuel classification
Types of fire extinguishers
How to use fire extinguisher
Recommended systems as per application

3.

Automatic sprinkler stystem

Introduction
Types of sprinklers
Types of sprinkler system
Wet sprinkler system
Dry sprinkler stystem
Preaction sprinkler system
Deluge sprinkler system
Tree, looped, gridded pipe arrangement systems

4.

Type of hazards or occupancy

Light hazard
Ordinary hazard group I
Ordinary hazard group II
Extra hazard
Special hazard

5.

Automatic sprinkler system designing

Pipe schedule method
Hydraulically calculated method
Number of sprinkler allowed as per Pipe Size
Sprinkler Head K-factor, Temperature Rating, Configurations & types
Pump selection
Example problems
Stand pipe system
Classification of stand pipes
Types of pipes
Design consideration
Tank selection
Design of pump sets
Fire hydrants (internal & external) selection
Example Problems

6.

Fire detection
system
Fire Alarm
Smoke detector
Heat detector

7.

Stair case
pressurization
Introduction
Design consideration
Example problem

8. Water less system

FM 200 system
CO2 system
Foam sprinkler system