Course Details

Building Law

Academic Year 2023/24

BZA010 course is part of 2 study plans

BPC-APS Summer Semester 3rd year

BPC-EVB Winter Semester 4th year

The law system of the Czech state. The building law as part of the system of administrative law. Building Act. Implementing regulations to the Building Act. Legal regulation of administrative offenses. Expropriation. Conduct of business by natural and legal entities in building industry. Basic employment relations.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

The objective of the course is to make the students familiar with the legal order of the Czech Republic focusing on the Building Act and its implementing regulations.

Knowledge

After completing the course students will be familiar with the Building Law.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the course, basic legal concepts.
2. The place of the building law in the system of administrative law. The Building Act, its contents and principles. Implementing regulations to the Building Act.
3. Town and country planning and its instruments.
4. Planning permission proceedings, types of planning permissions.
5. Environmental protection, assessment of concepts and intentions on environmental protection.
6. Building code, building permit and notofication, building permit proceedings. Authorized inspector.
7. Structure realization. Utilization and removal of structures. Energy intensity of buildings.
8. Selected activities in construction. Authorization according to the Law. No. 360/1992 Coll., on practice of profession of authorized architects and authorized engineers and technicians working in the field of building constructions.
9. Administrative offenses. Expropriation.
10. Technical requirements on construction products. Waste management.
11. Basic employment relations, requisites of employment contract.
12. Trade law.
13. Trade companies, their basic characteristics, status of partners.

Prerequisites

The subject extends the knowledge gained at secondary school.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

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

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the course, basic legal concepts. 2. The place of the building law in the system of administrative law. The Building Act, its contents and principles. Implementing regulations to the Building Act. 3. Town and country planning and its instruments. 4. Planning permission proceedings, types of planning permissions. 5. Environmental protection, assessment of concepts and intentions on environmental protection. 6. Building code, building permit and notofication, building permit proceedings. Authorized inspector. 7. Structure realization. Utilization and removal of structures. Energy intensity of buildings. 8. Selected activities in construction. Authorization according to the Law. No. 360/1992 Coll., on practice of profession of authorized architects and authorized engineers and technicians working in the field of building constructions. 9. Administrative offenses. Expropriation. 10. Technical requirements on construction products. Waste management. 11. Basic employment relations, requisites of employment contract. 12. Trade law. 13. Trade companies, their basic characteristics, status of partners.