Course Details

Building Constructions and urban planning

Academic Year 2023/24

BHA019 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-GK Summer Semester 3rd year

Introduction into the structural design of buildings constructions. Students will learn the basic knowledge of purpose, function and design of buildings and structures and of application of knowledge in the field of geodesy and their interconnections with buildings constructions. Output of this course is elaboration of the study the building construction in concrete conditions given area.

Course Guarantor

Ing. Radim Smolka, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Objective

Students are to acquaint with the issue of building construction design and realization including project drawings and valid legislation and with application of knowledge in the field of geodesy and their interconnections with buildings constructions.

Knowledge

Documentation study of structural design of the building construction including the situation and and oral examination

Syllabus

1. Urban design, urban planning, legislation and urban typology.
2. Functional, operational and spatial structure of urban settlement department, city plan, municipalities, regulatory elements, buffer zones.
3. Public spaces, transport and technical facilities and infrastructure.Types of buildings according to the purpose of their use. Basic types of structures and coordinating of their dimensions.
4. Structural systems of buildings. External influences on the design.
5. Excavations and foundation construction. Vertical load-bearing structure including exterior walls of the building. The spatial bracing construction.
6. Horizontal structures. Types of floor structures. Overhanging and receding structures.
7. Structural systems for roofing structures. Non-bearing structures, doors and windows, floors.
8. Constructions for different height level – stairs, ramps.
9. Flat roofs and chimneys.

Prerequisites

cartography, land surveying, computer graphics CARD

Language of instruction

Czech

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

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/273495

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Urban design, urban planning, legislation and urban typology. 2. Functional, operational and spatial structure of urban settlement department, city plan, municipalities, regulatory elements, buffer zones. 3. Public spaces, transport and technical facilities and infrastructure.Types of buildings according to the purpose of their use. Basic types of structures and coordinating of their dimensions. 4. Structural systems of buildings. External influences on the design. 5. Excavations and foundation construction. Vertical load-bearing structure including exterior walls of the building. The spatial bracing construction. 6. Horizontal structures. Types of floor structures. Overhanging and receding structures. 7. Structural systems for roofing structures. Non-bearing structures, doors and windows, floors. 8. Constructions for different height level – stairs, ramps. 9. Flat roofs and chimneys.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.–2. Draft of cellared building construction. 3.–4. Structural studies of the building 1:100. 5. Sections and Elevations of building. 6. Contour lines plan and local topography for the building. Location of the building in the terrain. 7. The foundation structure. 8. Proposal of landscaping. Technical report. 9. Completion and granting credit.