Faculty
of Civil Engineering
Short-term Study & Training
List of courses taught in English
Students on study placements at the FCE may choose from the following list of courses taught in English.
Please be aware that courses announced for the winter semester are not available in the summer semester, and vice versa.
The minimum requirement is 18 ECTS credits per semester.
BAA001 / Mathematics 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 7 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Linear algebra (basics of the matrix calculus, rank of a matrix, Gauss elimination method, inverse to a matrix, determinants and their applications). Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix. Basics of vectors, vector spaces. Linear spaces. Analytic geometry (dot, cross and mixed product of vectors, affine and metric problems for linear bodies in 3D).
The basic problems in numerical mathematics (interpolation, solving nonlinear equation and systems of linear equations, numerical differentiation).
BAA002 / Mathematics 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Functions in two and more variables. Limit and continuity, partial derivatives, implicit function, total differential, Taylor expansion, local minima and maxima, relative maxima and minima, maximum and minimum values of a function; directional derivative, gradient. Tangent to a 3-D curve, Tangent plane and normal to a surface.
BAA003 / Mathematics 3
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Curvilinear integral in a scalar field, its calculation and application. Divergence and rotation of a vector field. Curvilinear integral in a vector field, its calculation and application. Independence of a curvilinear integral on the integration path. Green`s theorem.
Existence and uniqueness of solutions to first order differential equations. n-th order homogeneous linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Solutions to non-homogeneous linear differential equations with special-type right-hand sides. Variation-of-constants method.
BAA004 / Mathematics 4
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Random sample, point estimation of an unknown distribution parameter and its properties, interval estimation of a distribution parameter, testing of statistical hypotheses, tests of distribution parameters, goodness-of-fit tests, basics of regression analysis.
BAA013 / Constructive Geometry
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Perspective collineation and affinity,circle in affinity. Coted projection, Monge`s projection, topographic surfaces, theoretical solution of the roofs, orthogonal axonometry and linear perspective.
BBA001 / Physics
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Physics
BCA001 / Building Chemistry
Academic Year 2023/2024 Both Semesters 5 credits Institute: Institute of Chemistry
Natural and secondary raw materials for building industry. Chemistry of glass. Air and hydraulic binders, production, chemical properties, setting and hardening. Corrosion of hardened binders and aggregates in the composite materials.
Chemical properties of other building materials, their degradation and protection.
Chemical and electrochemical properties of metals, their corrosion and protection.
Chemical properties of water, waste water, water for concrete production and impact water. Atmosphere, and air pollution.
Selected chapters of organic chemistry. Chemical composition and properties of wood, bitumen, carbon polymers and silicones.
BDA001 / Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
BDA002 / Elasticity and Plasticity
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
Analysis of a straight bar – basic assumptions. The interaction between the internal force components and the stress components, and between the internal force components and the external load. Basic cases of the loads of a bar. Simple tension and compression – the stress, the strain, the deflection. The influence of the temperature and the initial stresses. Simple shearing load. Simple bending load –calculation of the normal (axial) stresses. Design of the bent beams. The deflection of the bent beams. Differential equation of the deformation line. Method of initial parameters a Mohr’s method. Calculation of the tangent stresses – massive and thin-walled cross-sections. The consideration of the shear stress in the bent beam. The centre of the shear. Pure torsion and warping torsion. Free warping – massive circular and non-circular cross-section. Thin-walled closed and opened cross-section.
Composed load cases of the bar. Spatial and biaxial bending. Tension (Compression) and bending in a plane. Eccentric torsion and compression. The core of the section. Design of the beams in the case of the composed (complex) load.
The stability and the bucking strength of the compressed bars. Euler’s solution. The critical force and the critical stress. The strength approach to stability. A bar loaded by a bending and buckling load. The check of the buckling bars.
The theory of the material strength and failure. The stress and strain state in a point of the body. The principal stress at the plane stress problem.
BDA003 / Structural Analysis 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
Principle of virtual work. Clauses about virtual works reciprocity. Maxwell-Mohr integral. Solution of displacement and rotation of frame systems using method of unit forces, including the influence of temperature changes. Veresčagin’s rule.
Statically indeterminate structures. Degree of static indeterminacy. Solution methods. Force method. Elementary cantilever beam. Continuous girder is solved by three-torque equation. Moving load at continuous girder. Combinations of loads.
Planar frame using by force method, option of statically indeterminate values, canonical equations. Influence of shift of supports, effects of uniform and non-uniform temperature changes at frame structure. Utilization of shape symmetry.
Planar arc is solved by force method, influence of compression of line of arc, deflection load. Statically indeterminate truss girder is solved by force method.
BDA007 / Structural Analysis 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
Solution of rectangular frames and continuous girders. Temperature influences, shift of supports. Truss girder is solved by deflection method. Bar with variable cross-section with height linear ramping, determination of deflection coefficient. Solution of spatial frames using deflection method. Calculation model for simplified deflection method.
BEA001 / Geodesy
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Geodesy
The importance of geodesy in civil engineering. Coordinate systems, reference frames and vertical datum in Czech republic and EU.
Angle-, distance-, height measurements, geodetic calculations. Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
Methods of spatial data collecting - surveying, GNSS, terrestrial and airborne laser scanning, mobile mapping systems.
Setting out of structures, check measurements, determination of displacements and deformations, special measurements.
Cadastre of real estates, retrieval of informations from cadastre.
Cartography, state map series, geographical information systems (GIS), building information model (BIM).
BEA002 / Field Training in Geodesy
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Geodesy
Collecting of available geodetic data (maps, information abou property relations, data from geographic information systems etc.) for given real locality, as preparation of project design. Use of geodetic data in designing. Basic measuring methods of data acquisition. Processing of measured data, elaboration of final documentation.
BFA001 / Geology
Academic Year 2023/2024 Both Semesters 5 credits Institute: Institute of Geotechnics
Earth’s interior and Earth’s crust, plate tectonic, subduction and rift zones, technical petrography – rock-forming minerals, structures and textures affecting rock properties, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks – formation, classification, properties and application of rocks in civil engineering practice (aggregates, building and ornamental stones), assessment of foundation soils composed of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, problems during construction caused by various types of foundation soils, endogenous geological processes – volcanism, earthquake, tectonic forces, folding, faults, cracks in rock environment and their affecting of construction, principles of structural geology, exogenous geological processes – weathering, erosion, geodynamic processes and their affecting of construction, basics of geomorphology, basics of hydrogeology – groundwater in construction site, geological maps, principles of regional geology of the Czech Republic – Bohemian Massif, Western Carpathians, methods of engineering geological survey.
BFA002 / Soil Mechanics
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Geotechnics
Soil properties from the perspective of the individual phases. State characteristics of soils.
Stress and strain in 2D (Mohr circle, Effective stress, drained ver. undrained conditions).
Water in the soil (permeability, seepage in the soil).
Compressibility of soil. Consolidation.
Shear strength of soils. Stress path.
Stress in the soil (Geostatic stress vertical and lateral. Stresses in soil due to surface loads).
Practical applications.
Settlement of foundation soil (total, consolidation).
Bearing capacity of foundation soil.
Slope Stability (principles of slope stability analysis, the effect of water on slope stability).
Earth pressures (active, at rest and passive).
BFA003 / Foundation Engineering (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Geotechnics
Deep foundations - division of elements. Piles - distribution (displacement, replacement). Drilled piles, CFA - technology of building. Design of axial loaded bored piles - limit bearing capacity, limit loading curve. Uncased piles - building technology. Vibropiles. Micropiles - types, building technology, utilization. Diaphragm walls and lamellas - building technology and utilization. Anchors - distribution, design and construction methods, anchor prestressing.
Jet grouting - technology, recovery. Classical injection - sealing, hardening, compensation, injection materials.
Foundation pits and their timbering. Rider sheeting, pile walls, diaphragm walls. Cofferdams. Static design of foundation pit timbering. Foundation pit dewatering.
Underpinning.
BHA001 / Building Constructions 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 7 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHA006 / Building Constructions 3 (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHA007 / Introduction to Buildings‘ Design 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
Methods of building design with the consideration of an architectural concept - building typology and layout arrangement requirements. Acceptance of valid standards and regulations. The application of architectural and structural design principles, present economic relations, energy efficiency requirements and environmental demands. Design principles for barrier-free residential houses and their neighbouring outdoor spaces. Design of residential houses is completed in practical classes.
BHA008 / Building Constructions 4
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHA009 / Fire Safety of Buildings
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHA010 / Project – Building Constructions (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB002 / Computer Graphics (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB004 / Building Constructions 2 (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB005 / Thermal engineering
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
Thermal transmittance.
Surface temperature of the budilding structure.
Temperature evaluation in the structure.
Average thermal transmittance if the building envelope.
Interstitial condensation and evaporation.
Thremal stability of the room.
Air permeability of the building envelope.
BHB011 / Acoustics and Daylighting
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
The course presents fundamentals in room acoustics and daylighting in buildings. Knowledge of this subject will be practically used for the following study - in seminars, projects and master degree projects.
BHB012 / Bachelor Seminar (S-PST)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB013 / Failures and Reconstruction
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BHB014 / Specialized Project (S-PST)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 6 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
BIA001 / Building Materials
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Testing
Testing methods of physical-mechanical properties and durability with focus on destructive methods. Basic deformational characteristics of building materials and their monitoring.
Properties of building materials: stone, aggregate, binder, concrete, mortar, building ceramics, metal, timber, high molecular matters, bitumens, insulating materials, composite materials.
Practical laboratory tests of selected building materials with individual tasks for individual students including elaboration of records about the tests.
BIA002 / Testing and Technology
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Testing
The content of the subject is divided into two specialized sections:
1) Testing in civil engineering and
2) Technology of concrete and silicate production.
Ad 1)
Requirements for building materials according to the EU directive on building products and the system of tests of materials, segments and constructions.
Division of tests into certificate tests and checking tests, destructive and non-destructive.
Regression relations and statistic evaluation of results.
Essentials of non-destructive testing methods and their application in laboratories (electro-acoustic, magnetic and hardness non-destructive measurement methods).
Radiometric methods of the detection of reinforcement location, volume mass and moisture of bulk materials and radon in buildings.
Ad 2)
Technology of concrete production. Types and components of concrete.
Fresh concrete processing, concrete hardening and curing.
Basic findings about production and usage of silicate products.
BLA001 / Members of Concrete Structures
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Design of reinforced concrete members for bending and shear force - ultimate and serviceability limit states, detailing. Design of reinforced concrete members for axial force and bending moment. Principles of concrete members design subject to other effect of the load. Design of members from plain and lightly reinforced concrete.
Simple concrete members – one way reinforced slabs, beams, girders, lintels, cantilevered structures, columns and stairs.
BLA002 / Concrete Structures 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Dimensioning reinforced concrete members considering theirs limit serviceability.
Two-ways slabs – edge supported. Circular and annular slabs. Two-way ribbed and cassette slabs. Wall beams – simple and continuous.
Construction and expansion joints in concrete structures. Realisation and control of concrete structures.
BLA003 / Concrete Structures 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Precast structures – halls, skeletons, buildings from flat and spatial units. Type of units. Arrangement and details of connections. Calculation of precast units and structures, joint members, anchorages and mounting lugs. Spatial rigidity. Special units and structures. Design and application of composite structures on constructions of structural engineering.
Selected structures of civil engineering – storages, tanks. Design principles of prestressed concrete members.
BLA004 / Masonry Structures (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
Single-layer non-reinforced walls and piers. Ultimate limit states. Analyses of the basic loads masonry structures. Serviceability limit states.
Structural systems of masonry constructions. Masonry arches. Design of horizontal structures from shaped masonry bricks. Reinforced and prestressed masonry. Simlified design methods. Fire resistance assesment.
Reconstructions and strengthening of masonry structures.
BOA001 / Engineering and Transport Structures
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Basic types of building and engineering structures and their general characteristics.
Building materials – material properties from the viewpoint of usage in building structures, basic material characteristics.
Load of building structure, load classification, particular load cases and their combinations.
Concrete and masonry structures, metal and timber structures – basic types, dispositional and structural design, significant structural details.
Basis of design and computer modelling of engineering structures.
Concrete and steel bridges and timber footbridges, masonry bridges and vaults: overview of types.
Transportation history, categorization, social aspects, transportation advantages and disadvantages. Integrated transport systems. Transportation terminology and basic concepts.
Railway transport charakteristic, basic concepts, alignment and profile of the line, permanent way and subgrade. Railway station.
Roadway and motorway characteristics in CR, design of road structures, technologies for road construction, urban infrastructure.
Airports.
BOA002 / Members of Metal Structures
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Material and selection of structural members.
Principles and rules of reliability approach in steel structures, allowable and ultimate limit state design methods. Probabilistic approach in steel structures.
Geometric and static characteristics of open and closed cross-sections of thin-walled steel members.
Connections of metal structures – principles of structural design (bolted, frictional and welded connections).
Tensile members. Bending – elastic and plastic action.
Simple and warping torsion of thin-walled open and closed cross-section members.
Stability and buckling resistance of compression members of solid and composed section.
Lateral buckling.
Members subject to tension and bending, compression and bending stress.
Global and local stability problems. Load-bearing capacity of thin-walled members.
Repeated load resistance of steel structures. Factors affecting steel fatigue strength.
BOA003 / Timber Structures (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Limit states and rules of computer modelling. Basic types of strain of timber members and their verifying.
Fasteners – mechanical connections, glued connections.
Plane solid and truss structures – girders, frames, and arches. Rules of structural design and theoretical analysis.
Spatial structures – laminated structures, spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults and shells.
Timber bridges and footbridges. Specialized timber structures.
Production and assembly. Protection and maintenance.
Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Examples of realized timber structures.
BOA008 / Metal Structures 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Design of industrial buildings.
Roof structures (cladding, rafters, purlins, girders, bracing, bearings, optional roof members).
Crane girders and material handling systems in industrial buildings.
Crane girder design for travelling cranes (rail, main girder, horizontal bracing beam, bumpers).
Transmission principles of crane girder braking force into substructure.
Bent systems of industrial buildings.
Design of web-plate and built-up columns, footing and column anchorage.
Spatial rigidity of industrial building systems.
Lateral (wind) bracing, bracing systems of buildings with socketed columns only.
Exposed and interior walls structure of industrial buildings.
Window and portal lintel dimensioning.
Production, assembly, maintenance and rebuilding of metal-framed industrial bearing structures.
BRB001 / Hydraulics and Hydrology (K),(V)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Water Structures
Basics of fluid statics – properties of fluids, pressure in a fluid at rest, hydrostatic forces on plain and curved surface, floatation
Basics of hydrodynamics, water flow in pressure pipeline systems.
Flow in systems with a free surface, in open channels and flow over hydraulic structures.
New finding in hydraulics of water structures.
Basics of groundwater flow, wells, collection galleries.
Basics in hydrology, water balance, precipitation, evaporation, surface runoff from watershed and its analysis, maximum and minimum discharges, M-day and N-year discharges.
Students will take the course partly in computational and laboratory exercises.
BSA001 / Waterworks Structures
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Landscape Water Management
Water courses regulations, flood control, weirs, water courses restoration. Water abstraction from water courses, artificial channels, waterways, water reservoirs. Construction, arrangement and use of water reservoirs, ponds and purpose reservoirs. Watershed protection,land consolidation. Landscape restoration,landscape water management. Irrigation, drainage, municipal engineering, catchment of water sources. Water supply, water treatment, water reservoirs and water towers. Sewerage, sewage water treatment, sludge management, sewage water treatment plants, waste disposal, landfills. Balneology, water management research.
BTA001 / Building Services 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Services
Basic principles of disposal of waste water from buildings. Hydraulics and design of drainage systems. Design of wastewater and rainwater drainage systems. Control runoff of rainwater. Sewer connections.
Basic principles of water installations. Designing of water installation. Hydraulics and sizing of water installation. Protection against pollution of potable water. Water heaters. Thermal insulation of pipes. Equipment for fire water supply. Water connections.
Basic principles of building gas supply. Types and characteristics of combustible gases. Designing a gas installation pipework. Sizing gas installations. Categories and placement of gas appliances. Gas service lines.
Internal electrical power distribution. Materials for electrical installations. Electrical connections. Conductors.
BTA002 / Building Services 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Services
BTA003 / Building Services 3
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Services
BTB007 / Renewable and Alternative Sources of Energy
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Services
BUA001 / Informatics
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Science
Basic principles of operation system usage and management.
Cloud services.
Computer networks, Internet (principles, network protocols, Internet services)
Computer network security
Basic principles of computer graphics and image processing
Basics of typography.
Computer document processing using MS Word.
Advanced engineering computations using MS Excel
BVA001 / Economics
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
BVA002 / Principles of Business Economics
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
Activities in the construction company, organisation and production, outlet, sale, marketing
Investment activity in the firm, finances, taxes, construction orders and prices, contractual agreements
BVA004 / Financing of Construction Order
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
Financial sources of the civil firm, own and foreign sources, short-term and long-term sources.
Firm’s property, the management of particular parts of the property and the coverage of the property from various sources. Structural order and its determination.
Budget. Monitoring of the costs connected with the order, the running of the structural order from the technological and financial aspect.
Financial sources for the order assurance.
Financial plan of the order.
The cash flow of the company and the cash flow of the order.
Comparison of planned and real state of the structural order from the financial aspect.
Evaluation of the differences.
BVA016 / Project – Project Management of Building Constructions 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
It contains the creation of flowcharts in the course of project, structural plans, organograms, functional diagrams, plans of outputs, clearly and coordinating schedules in the form of network diagrams and Gantt diagrams, costs plans, deployment plans factual, personal and financial resources. Microsoft Project is used for processing. It also contains a plan for the organization of construction as part of the project documentation for the construction procedure, a proposal for a decision on the location of the building, a draft application for a building permit and a proposal for issuing the approval approval. Part of the documentation is the risk analysis of the project.
BWA002 / Technology of Constructions 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management
Construction sub-processes connected in particular with the main construction of building structures.
Principles of the staking out of buildings and built structures, principles of technological approaches and relationships during the performance of the technical stages of earthwork, basic lower structures, basic upper structures and the outer envelopes of buildings. Solution of the technological, spatial and temporal structures of construction processes, sequence of activities, level of preparedness of a workplace for construction, mutual dependencies and requirements concerning quality and safety – also with regard to the environment.
BWA003 / Technology of Constructions 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management
BWA004 / Construction Realization
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management
BZA003 / Building Law
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
NAA019 / Mathematics 5 (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
NBA007 / Applied Physics
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Physics
NDA015 / Elasticity and Plasticity
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Mechanics
NHA040-A / Introduction to Buildings‘ Design 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
Elementary architectural and structural design principles of civil buildings. Rooms and floor areas requirements, building volume and zones, cardinal point orientation, operation schemes, interiors equipments and furniture.
Respect for applicable ordinances, regulations, standards. Application of current requirements for economy, energy efficiency of buildings and environmental protection. Requirements for barrier-free design of buildings and accessibility to them.
NHB041 / Computer Aided Building Physics Application
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
In particular, the assessment of structures in terms of thermal and acoustic techniques
Verification of thermal comfort, sound and light microclimate of buildings.
The calculation and design is to optimize the structural design of the building envelope and the doors and windows, including the resolution of structural details.
NHB042 / Saving and Building Adaptation
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB043 / Diploma Seminar (S-PST)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB044 / Low Energy Houses
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
Designing of Nearly zero energy houses and Passive houses with the use of passive solar systems. An introduction to the utilization of active solar systems and renewable energy sources. Students will be given a general layout of a family or residential house to adjust and design with satisfactory conditions. The balance of energy losses and gains will be calculated for the heating period as well as energy savings, heating expenses and calculation of the other technical indexes.
NHB046 / Sustainable Building
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB047 / Selected Chapters from Building Constructions 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB048 / Selected Chapters from Fire Protection of Buildings
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB049 / Structural Detail (S-PST)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB052 / The Course of the Building Design Process
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
The realization of the investment plan represents many administrative activities for the developer. These activities are usually provided by invited specialists. Students will be acquainted with the individual phases of building permit.
NHB053 / Reconstruction and Renovation of Historical Buildings
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB054 / Specialized Project (S-PST)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 8 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NHB055 / Selected Chapters from Building Constructions 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Building Structures
NIB011 / Modern building materials
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 4 credits Institute: Institute of Building Testing
Specifying the requirements for maintenance, repair and reconstruction from the point of view of used materials.
Evaluation of data obtained by diagnostic methods for materials choice.
Checking of materials properties with certificate tests.
Theoretic essentials of composite materials (particles and fibre composites).
Polymer-cement mortars and concrete, impregnation of concretes.
Permanent elastic mastics, their use and their significance in construction.
Glues of building materials and technology of joints.
Hydro-insulating materials and technology, additional thermal insulation. Preservation and replacement of reinforcement in reinforced concretes.
Dispersed reinforcement, wirecutted concrete, self-compacting concretes.
Materials for re-development technologies of reinforced constructions.
Seminary paper with individual task on choice of materials for re-development technology.
NLA022 / Concrete Structures (S)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures
NOA019 / Metal Structures 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 5 credits Institute: Institute of Metal and Timber Structures
Rules of structural design of multi-storey buildings. Spatial rigidity, bracing and reinforcing systems. Floor and platform bearing systems.
Multi-storey building columns, footing and column anchorage.
Large-span roofing. Spatial trusses. Structural design of truss plates and grid systems.
Production and assembly of metal structures. Reinforcing, reconstructing and rebuilding problems of steel framed buildings.
Design of metal structures based on experimental results. Tests realization and interpretation.
Catastrophic events and their reflecting in design concepts of structural systems.
NVB025 / Construction Valuation
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 3 credits Institute: Institute of Structural Economics and Management
NZB014 / Company Practice Psychology
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
VXC003 / Traineeship
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Faculty of Civil Engineering
VXC004 / Final Project
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 30 credits Institute: Faculty of Civil Engineering
VXC004 / Final Project
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 30 credits Institute: Institute of Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Science
VYA004 / English Upper-Intermediate 3
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The content of the course is aimed at students who would benefit from studying and practicing B2 (higher Upper-Intermediate level) English with a native speaker, i.e. students who: wish to study abroad (e.g. with the Erasmus+ programme) or work abroad; want to prepare for the BY003 B2 level language exam (useful for Erasmus+); already speak English at a good Intermediate level and would like to improve; already speak English at an Upper Intermediate or Advanced level and would like to practice their English so as not to forget what they learned in previous years.
VYA004 / English Upper-Intermediate 3
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The content of the course is aimed at students who would benefit from studying and practicing B2 (higher Upper-Intermediate level) English with a native speaker, i.e. students who: wish to study abroad (e.g. with the Erasmus+ programme) or work abroad; want to prepare for the BY003 B2 level language exam (useful for Erasmus+); already speak English at a good Intermediate level and would like to improve; already speak English at an Upper Intermediate or Advanced level and would like to practice their English so as not to forget what they learned in previous years.
VYA005 / English Upper-Intermediate 4
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The content of the VYA005 course is aimed at students who would benefit from studying and practicing B2 (higher Upper-Intermediate level) English with a native speaker, i.e. students who: wish to study abroad (e.g. with the Erasmus+ programme) or work abroad; want to prepare for the VYA013 B2 level language exam (useful for Erasmus+); already speak English at a good Intermediate level and would like to improve; already speak English at an Upper Intermediate or Advanced level and would like to practice their English so as not to forget what they learned in previous years.
VYA005 / English Upper-Intermediate 4
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The content of the VYA005 course is aimed at students who would benefit from studying and practicing B2 (higher Upper-Intermediate level) English with a native speaker, i.e. students who: wish to study abroad (e.g. with the Erasmus+ programme) or work abroad; want to prepare for the VYA013 B2 level language exam (useful for Erasmus+); already speak English at a good Intermediate level and would like to improve; already speak English at an Upper Intermediate or Advanced level and would like to practice their English so as not to forget what they learned in previous years.
VYA010 / English Upper-Intermediate 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
Vocabulary: personal questions, health, illness and treatment, clothes and fashion, travelling, weather, feelings, adjectives, my university/faculty/campus, my study programme, e-mail communication with professors
Reading: civil engineering / architecture course at a university abroad
Writing: comparing your study in the Czech Republic and a study of architecture /civil engineering abroad
VYA010 / English Upper-Intermediate 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
Vocabulary: personal questions, health, illness and treatment, clothes and fashion, travelling, weather, feelings, adjectives, my university/faculty/campus, my study programme, e-mail communication with professors
Reading: civil engineering / architecture course at a university abroad
Writing: comparing your study in the Czech Republic and a study of architecture /civil engineering abroad
VYA011 / English Upper-Intermediate 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
Vocabulary: music and emotions, body parts, media, towns and cities, accommodation, my future house, science, studying abroad.
VYA011 / English Upper-Intermediate 2
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
Vocabulary: music and emotions, body parts, media, towns and cities, accommodation, my future house, science, studying abroad.
VYA013 / English Upper-Intermediate, B2 Level (exam)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The exam is conducted orally with pairs of students and lasts 25 minutes.
The exam tests speaking skills such as interaction, pronunciation and the ability to construct connected sentences to give information or opinions on a certain topic. It also tests listening and reading ability, as well as grammar and vocabulary.
VYA013 / English Upper-Intermediate, B2 Level (exam)
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The exam is conducted orally with pairs of students and lasts 25 minutes.
The exam tests speaking skills such as interaction, pronunciation and the ability to construct connected sentences to give information or opinions on a certain topic. It also tests listening and reading ability, as well as grammar and vocabulary.
VYC001 / Czech Language for Foreigners 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Summer Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
Grammar: conjugation of verbs in the present tense, accusative singular, and gender of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
Vocabulary: family, jobs, food and drink, telling the time and date,numbers 0 - 1000
VYC001 / Czech Language for Foreigners 1
Academic Year 2023/2024 Winter Semester 2 credits Institute: Institute of Social Sciences
The course is intended for beginner students.
Grammar: conjugation of verbs in the present tense, accusative singular, gender of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
Vocabulary: family, jobs, food and drink, telling the time and date, numbers 0 - 1000.