Course Details
Building Constructions 4 (APS)
Academic Year 2023/24
BHA043 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Summer Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Knowledge
The graduate obtains comprehensive information about building envelopes.
The graduate will acquire knowledge especially of design of external walls, roofs, windows and doors and curtain walling.
The graduate will be able to elaborate technical documentation and perform a basic assessment of designed building envelope structures.
The graduate will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in all contexts in the design of buildings.
The graduate will be able to apply the knowledge in building design in follow-up courses and their bachelor projects.
Syllabus
2. Roofing of buildings – classification of roofs, main structural parts and components, types of the roof dewatering. Warm flat roofs – design principles, roof dewatering, material variants of individual layers of flat roofs.
3. Warm flat roofs – design variants (i.e. the classical arrangement of layers, inverted, combined, compact), green and walkable flat roofs, safety in use of roofs.
4. Cold flat roofs – structural design principles, roof dewatering, material variations, layers of flat roof composition, design of roof ventilation system. Truss girders.
5. Roof trusses – classification, carpentry joints, basic types of trusses. Purlin roofs – design solution at the hipped end and at the gable. Modern roof trusses – collar beam trusses and rafter systems.
6. Compositions of thermally insulated roofs above residential attic spaces.
7. Flashing – design of sheet metal constructions of roofs, walls, etc. Implementation and structural details of flat roofs.
8. Basic types of roof coverings, design principles and requirements for application. Implementation and structural details of pitched roofs.
9. External wall structures - design requirements for multi-layer and sandwich walls with an external (or internal) thermal insulation system. ETICS – materials and application technology of external insulation layers (i.e. anchoring, bonding, surface finishes). Principles of a solution of multi-layer wall structures with external thermal insulation and ventilated facade.
10. External wall structures – design principles, material variations of single-leaf homogeneous structures. Openings in external wall structures: windows – variants and materials.
11. Openings in external wall structures: windows – requirements for installation. External pedestrian doorsets and gates - variants, materials, requirements for installation. Ways of fitting windows and doors. Roof windows.
12. Curtain walling – application, structural and material types, anchoring of components.
13. The final lecture, examination instructions.
Prerequisites
The students deepen their knowledge of building design. It is assumed that students already have a fundamental knowledge of building design, building materials, physics and descriptive geometry.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus