Course Details

Timber buildings

Academic Year 2023/24

BHA029 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Summer Semester 3rd year

This course gives students an overview of timber building design, including:
- introduction to timber buildings
- timber frame buildings
- SIP (structural insulated panel) buildings
- timber log buildings
- special timber buildings
- building physics in timber buildings
- fire safety in timber buildings

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Karel Šuhajda, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Syllabus

1. Introduction: Single- and multi-storey timber buildings, available construction materials with regard to indoor and outdoor climate, construction processes, protection of structural timber.
2-3. Timber frame buildings: Existing variants, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.
4. SIP (Structural Insulated Panel) buildings: Description, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.
5. Mass timber (gluelam) buildings: Description, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.
6. Timber log buildings: Existing variants, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.
7. Special timber buildings: timber buildings in flood zones and seismic zones, high-rise timber buildings, etc.
8. Maintenance, repairs and rehabilitation of timber buildings.
9. Building physics: Thermal performance of timber buildings in comparison to traditional masonry buildings.
10. Building physics: Indoor climate in timber buildings
11. Fire safety in timber buildings: Residential buildings.
12. Fire safety in timber buildings: Industrial buildings and warehouses.
13. Fire safety in timber buildings: Public buildings

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of building design, fire safety of buildings, building physics and timber structures complying with preceeding courses.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 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/273487

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction: Single- and multi-storey timber buildings, available construction materials with regard to indoor and outdoor climate, construction processes, protection of structural timber.

2-3. Timber frame buildings: Existing variants, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.

4. SIP (Structural Insulated Panel) buildings: Description, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.

5. Mass timber (gluelam) buildings: Description, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.

6. Timber log buildings: Existing variants, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.

7. Special timber buildings: timber buildings in flood zones and seismic zones, high-rise timber buildings, etc.

8. Maintenance, repairs and rehabilitation of timber buildings.

9. Building physics: Thermal performance of timber buildings in comparison to traditional masonry buildings.

10. Building physics: Indoor climate in timber buildings

11. Fire safety in timber buildings: Residential buildings.

12. Fire safety in timber buildings: Industrial buildings and warehouses.

13. Fire safety in timber buildings: Public buildings

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Assignment of semestral projects: Redesign of the building elaborated in Building design 1 to 4 courses into a basementless timber building. Approximate calculations of dimensions of load-bearing elements. 2. Design of timber frame building foundations. 3. Design of timber frame building walls with regard to building physics, technical systems, piping, etc. Assembly scheme of one wall. Ground floor plan drawing. 4. Design of variants to timber frame building walls (SIP, timber logs, etc.). Variant ground floor plan drawing. 5. Design of timber frame building floor and ceiling. Floor structure drawing. 6. Design of variants to timber frame building floor. Variant floor structure drawings. 7. Presentation of previous works, discussion, group consultations. 8. Design of sloped roof of timber frame building. Roof truss drawing. 9. Design of variants to timber frame sloped roof. Variant roof truss drawings. 10. Design of flat roofs of timber frame building. Flat roof drawing. 11. Assembly details of timber buildings. Assembly detail drawings. 12. Presentation of previous works, discussion, group consultations. 13. Final consultations and classification.