Fire Fighting Design: Sprinklers, Fire Pumps and Hydrants

It is for mechanical and MEP engineers, draughtsmen and site engineers at consultants and contractors who are moving into fire fighting design, and for HVAC and plumbing engineers widening into fire protection. You should know basic fluid flow and use a spreadsheet; no fire protection experience is needed.

Yes. Every module, the notes, the worked problems, the project and the final assessment are free, and the software it uses is free. The certificate is optional.

NFPA 13 (2025 edition) for sprinklers, NFPA 14 (2024) for standpipes, NFPA 20 (2025) for fire pumps, NFPA 24 (2025) for underground mains and NFPA 25 (2026) for maintenance, with EN 12845 compared where it differs. The notes explain the rules in their own words and never reproduce the standards; NFPA offers free read-only access to its standards online after a free account is made.

It teaches the method and the NFPA family that most national codes build on, and shows how to read whichever code your project adopts. The United States and many other countries adopt NFPA standards through their building and fire codes, and Europe designs sprinklers to EN 12845. In India, Part 4 of the National Building Code and the related IS standards apply, and in the Gulf each civil defence authority publishes its own code, such as the UAE Fire and Life Safety Code or SBC 801 in Saudi Arabia, and approves contractors and products. Local regulations and the authority always govern.

You will be able to prepare a design pack that a senior engineer can review: layouts, a hydraulic calculation, a tank and pump selection and a commissioning sheet. Fire fighting systems are life safety systems, so a real design must be done or checked by a competent engineer under local regulations, and in many places only an approved designer or contractor may submit it.

A spreadsheet such as LibreOffice Calc for the hydraulic calculator you build in the course, and LibreCAD, AutoCAD or squared paper for the layouts. Commercial hydraulic software is not needed.

About 23 hours of video, notes and practice at your own pace, of which about 15 hours is video. The optional office building project takes about 18 hours more.

An EDWartens certificate of completion, issued when you finish the modules and pass the 15-question final at 60 percent, with a number anyone can verify on our site. The course covers much of the knowledge used in NFPA 13, 14 and 20 design and tested in exams such as NICET Water-Based Systems Layout, but it is not an NFPA certification (such as CFPS), a NICET level or a civil defence approval, and none of them is affiliated with EDWartens.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹559 including GST for this intermediate course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.