Course Details

Building Constructions 1

Academic Year 2023/24

BHA001 course is part of 5 study plans

BPC-SI / VS Winter Semester 1st year

BPC-MI Winter Semester 2nd year

BPC-EVB Winter Semester 1st year

BKC-SI Winter Semester 1st year

BPA-SI Winter Semester 1st year

The course is to introduce the history and development of the civil engineering industry to the student. It’s to teach students about the building code and accompanying decrees, local standards, nomenclature, structural systems, etc. Students are to gain information about loads and forces as well alongside ones regarding vertical load and non-load bearing structures, stairs, ramps, and others.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Students introduction into problematic of building construction, namely from plan, project documentation, to own carrying out.
Acquaint with basic condition of construction, terminology of structure and basic construction principles.
Summary and profundity of education subject is volumetric and content conceived from lessons in amount of semester instruction.

Knowledge

Student copes aim subject adoption basic technology and
knowledge base obtained by applid, inclusive completive elements terrestrial constructions at illumination legislative frames and types building documentation in the process of build - up.

Syllabus

1. Introduction. History of civil engineering, i.e. the field of building constructions
2. Classification of constructions (buildings, traffic, and transportation facilities, water management facilities and special objects). Classification of buildings. Nomenclature in building constructions.
3. Design and construction process. Directions and influences in construction processes – professional competence of people, building code and accompanying decrees, Czech technical standards, technical requirements for building structures, modular coordination.
4. Primary requirements put onto building structures (mechanic resistance and stability, fire safety, health protection of living beings and living environment, noise protection, safety system design, and energy saving and thermal protection). Influences affecting structures of buildings.
5. Structural elements. Structural systems and requirements. Stability and rigidity of structural systems. Design of structural systems. Classification of structural systems (wall slab, post slab, combined).
6. Load bearing vertical structures – Wall slab structural system – principles, materials, fasteners and the process of joining. Types of wall slab structural systems
7. Load bearing vertical structures – Wall slab structural system – Types of wall slab structural systems
8. Load bearing vertical structures – Post slab structural system – principles, materials, element connections. Types of post slab structural systems.
9. Non-load bearing vertical structures. Lintels and opening head solutions.
10. Stairways – General design principles and requirements, step and flight dimensions.
11. Stairways – Structures of internal and external stairs. Division of stairways.
12. Garde-corps
13. Ladders, ramps, elevators, and escalators.

Prerequisites

It is assumed that the student has no knowledge at the beginning of the course in the field of civil engineering.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

7 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction. History of civil engineering, i.e. the field of building constructions 2. Classification of constructions (buildings, traffic, and transportation facilities, water management facilities and special objects). Classification of buildings. Nomenclature in building constructions. 3. Design and construction process. Directions and influences in construction processes – professional competence of people, building code and accompanying decrees, Czech technical standards, technical requirements for building structures, modular coordination. 4. Primary requirements put onto building structures (mechanic resistance and stability, fire safety, health protection of living beings and living environment, noise protection, safety system design, and energy saving and thermal protection). Influences affecting structures of buildings. 5. Structural elements. Structural systems and requirements. Stability and rigidity of structural systems. Design of structural systems. Classification of structural systems (wall slab, post slab, combined). 6. Load bearing vertical structures – Wall slab structural system – principles, materials, fasteners and the process of joining. Types of wall slab structural systems 7. Load bearing vertical structures – Wall slab structural system – Types of wall slab structural systems 8. Load bearing vertical structures – Post slab structural system – principles, materials, element connections. Types of post slab structural systems. 9. Non-load bearing vertical structures. Lintels and opening head solutions. 10. Stairways – General design principles and requirements, step and flight dimensions. 11. Stairways – Structures of internal and external stairs. Division of stairways. 12. Garde-corps 13. Ladders, ramps, elevators, and escalators.

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

The aim of practices is to teach students the proper ways of drafting. More specifically the usage of actually valid standards about construction drawings. Throughout practices, students are bound to work on studies, floor plans and sections. 1. Introduction to practices. Drafting standards. Paper format and arrangement of paper space. Technical lettering. Scales in drafting. Line types and line weight in drawings of buildings. 2. Drafting according to latest standards – Hatching. Dimensioning. Leaders and bubbles. Drawing of plumbing fixtures and furniture. Floor and room numbering. 3. Drafting according to latest standards – Basics of typology. Modular coordination. 4. Drafting according to latest standards – Drawing of windows. 5. Drafting according to latest standards – Drawing of doors and gates. 6. Drafting according to latest standards – Surface finishes. Chimneys and ventilation shafts. 7. Drafting according to latest standards – First-floor plan and sections of a building without basement (case study) 8. First-floor plan respecting modular coordination and basics of typology 9. Drafting according to latest standards – First-floor plan and the section of a building without basement (individual assignment) 10. Drafting according to latest standards – Stairway design. Drafting of stairs. 11. Drafting according to latest standards – Stairway design. Drafting of stairs. 12. Drafting according to latest standards – Stairway in the plans of a multi-story building. 13. Submission and final evaluation of presented work.