Course Details

Rehabilitation of Water Infrastructure

Academic Year 2024/25

BPA010 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 4th year

The course deals with conception problems of solving rehabilitation of water and sewer systems (water mains, sewerage), planning methods, survey methods of current conditions, overview of trenchless technology methods use for rehabilitation of water mains and sewerage systems focused on local repairs, general repairs of networks and new line and repairs of objects.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jaroslav Raclavský, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Municipal Water Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Utility Networks, Water Supply, Wastewater collection.

Aims

- Knowledge about standards and regulations, pipe material and material used at rehabilitation, inspection and failure detection of water and sewer pipes, cleaning of water and sewer pipes
- Design of rehabilitation methods

Student will manage to design of restoration plan and technical design and planning of rehabilitation of water and sewer networks and design of nodig rehabilitation technologies.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281757

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, basic indicators of the technical condition of sewerage network, sewerage and drainage - basic information.
  • 2. Maintenance and cleaning of sewer networks, failure of sewerage networks and sewage connections.
  • 3. Inspection, classification and assessment of the condition of sewer system.
  • 4. Repair of sewer systems and sewer connections.
  • 5. Renovation of sewer systems and sewer connections.
  • 6. Replacement and construction of sewer systems and sewer connections.
  • 7. Technical condition of water networks.
  • 8. Repair of water supply networks.
  • 9. Renovation of water supply networks.
  • 10. Replacement and construction of water networks.
  • 11. Plans for rehabilitation of water and sewer networks.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Video presentation – Paris sewer system, discussion.
  • 2. The technique used in the exploration of sewer networks, technology presentations, discussions.
  • 3. Evaluation of camera survey by CCTV video recording.
  • 4. Project – Rehabilitation of selected parts of the sewer system 1.
  • 5. Project – Rehabilitation of selected parts of the sewer system 2.
  • 6. Project – Rehabilitation of selected parts of the sewer system 3.
  • 7. Evaluation of the technical condition of water mains.
  • 8. Project – Rehabilitation of selected parts of the water network 1.
  • 9. Project – Rehabilitation of selected parts of the water network 2.
  • 10. Practical examples of technologies – discussion.
  • 11. Credit.