Course Details

Building Constructions 4

Academic Year 2023/24

BHA008 course is part of 5 study plans

BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 3rd year

NPC-SIE Summer Semester 1st year

BPC-EVB Summer Semester 2nd year

BKC-SI Summer Semester 3rd year

BPA-SI Summer Semester 3rd year

The course deepens fundamental knowledge of building design. It focuses on supplementary information in various fields of building design (flooring, suspended ceilings, finishes). It follows previous courses of Building Construction and completes overview of all topics related with building design.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

To obtain fundamental knowledge in the field of contructions of roofing, external walls, windows, doors and gateways in external walls, windows in roofs of building, to aquire theoretical and functional relationship, to gain experience and ability for design.

Knowledge

Student will be able to make a proposal solution of contructions of roofing, external walls, windows, doors and gateways in external walls, windows in roofs of building

Syllabus

1. Flooring: Functional and operational requirements (thermal, acoustic, operational, fire safety, etc.), flooring properties and their testing, design and construction of flooring.
2. Flooring: Role of individual layers, materials, flooring finishes, critical details, dilatation
3. Flooring: Industrial floors and their specifics.
4. Suspended ceilings: Functional requirements, design principles and methodology, user requirements (acoustics, thermal, structural, fire safety, hygienic, etc.)
5. Suspended ceilings: Types of suspended ceilings (optical, acoustic, fire safety, etc.), materials, construction, critical details
6. Finishes of interior walls and ceilings: plasters, tiles, paints, requirements (functional, operational, hygienic, dilation, etc.)
6. Curtain walls: Types (technological, acoustic, etc.), designing, construction.
7. Joinery and locksmith works: Bills of quantities, necessary specifications and drawings.
8. Doors, gates and windows: Legal requirements, design of critical details with regard to building physics (thermal, acoustics, daylighting), influence of boundary conditions on fulfillment of hygienic, operational and functional requirements, choice of optimal solution in case of mutually excluding legal requirements
9. Windows in envelope walls: Variants, construction requirements and processes.
10. Doors and gates in envelope walls: Variants, construction requirements and processes. Roof windows. Doors, windows, niches, etc. in the interior.
11. Chimneys and ventilation bodies - design and implementation principles, link to layout design, design requirements, types and methods of solution.
12. Specific materials and chemicals used in construction industry, their types and properties. Anchoring elements and their application.
13. Garages, garage parking spaces, parking systems: Variants and design.

Prerequisites

The students deepen their knowledge of building design. It is assumed that students already have fundamental knowledge of building design on the level of Building Constructions 1, 2 and 3 courses.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

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. Flooring: Functional and operational requirements (thermal, acoustic, operational, fire safety, etc.), flooring properties and their testing, design and construction of flooring. 2. Flooring: Role of individual layers, materials, flooring finishes, critical details, dilatation 3. Flooring: Industrial floors and their specifics. 4. Suspended ceilings: Functional requirements, design principles and methodology, user requirements (acoustics, thermal, structural, fire safety, hygienic, etc.) 5. Suspended ceilings: Types of suspended ceilings (optical, acoustic, fire safety, etc.), materials, construction, critical details 6. Finishes of interior walls and ceilings: plasters, tiles, paints, requirements (functional, operational, hygienic, dilation, etc.) 6. Curtain walls: Types (technological, acoustic, etc.), designing, construction. 7. Joinery and locksmith works: Bills of quantities, necessary specifications and drawings. 8. Doors, gates and windows: Legal requirements, design of critical details with regard to building physics (thermal, acoustics, daylighting), influence of boundary conditions on fulfillment of hygienic, operational and functional requirements, choice of optimal solution in case of mutually excluding legal requirements 9. Windows in envelope walls: Variants, construction requirements and processes. 10. Doors and gates in envelope walls: Variants, construction requirements and processes. Roof windows. Doors, windows, niches, etc. in the interior. 11. Chimneys and ventilation bodies - design and implementation principles, link to layout design, design requirements, types and methods of solution. 12. Specific materials and chemicals used in construction industry, their types and properties. Anchoring elements and their application. 13. Garages, garage parking spaces, parking systems: Variants and design.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Composition of structures: Floors. 2. Composition of structures: Other. 3. Bills of quantities: Tinsmith. 4. Bills of quantities: Joinery and locksmith. 5. Drawing of cast-in-place flooring and tile splicing. 6. Drawing of suspended ceilings. 7. Consultations. 8. Bills of quantities: Doors, windows and gates. 9. Summary, accompanying and technical reports. 10. Consultations. 11. Drawing of elevations and 3D visualization of a building. 12. Consultations. 13. Credit.