Course Details
Academic Year 2025/26
BPB011 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 4th year
The subject is focused on the definition of basic concepts from the field of water management.
The student will acquire knowledge about environmentally appropriate solutions for managing drinking water in buildings, will be able to design the reuse of rainwater in buildings, clean wastewater and subsequently use it as gray water in buildings.
The student will learn to minimize water consumption in buildings, accumulate (soak) and use rainwater.
Credits
6 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
Entry Knowledge
Drainage and wastewater treatment
Water Supply
Aims
Concept design for waste water management, i.e. methods of using sewage, gray and rainwater.
Prerequisites
Drainage and wastewater treatment
Water Supply
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction, legislation (law on water, water supply and sewerage).
- 2. Drinking water in buildings, indoor installation - requirements, calculation.
- 3. Waste water in buildings - requirements, objects, calculation.
- 4. Rainwater - requirements, objects, calculation.
- 5. Gray waters - requirements, objects, calculation.
- 6. Technical solution and overview of rainwater management equipment.
- 7. Rainwater retention.
- 8. Soaking of rainwater.
- 9. Excursion.
- 10. Methods of wastewater treatment, root and domestic wastewater treatment plants.
- 11. Examples of completed constructions.
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Project assignment “Wastewater reuse in a family house”. Provision of input documents.
- Calculation of water needs, assessment of drinking water quality.
- Calculation of wastewater quantity, assessment of water quality.
- Calculation of rainwater, determination of the volume of the storage tank.
- Pollution of rainwater, maintenance of the system.
- Economic analysis of the design of the rainwater system.
- Calculation of the infiltration device, maintenance of the building.
- Assessment of centralized and decentralized solutions for wastewater disposal.
- Economic balance of centralized and decentralized solutions.
- Preparation of the cadastral situational drawing. Completion of the final report.
- Credit.