Course Details
Selected articles from Building Structures (R)
Academic Year 2023/24
NHB056 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIR Winter Semester 1st year
The content of subject is envelope and constructions of buildings – external walls and roof constructions, their material and constructional variants – classical and modern options. Relating themes are external plumbing and roofing, placing and fixing of components in window and door openings.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
A design of the clear and specific flat or pitched roof above various thermal and moisture internal environment. Waterproof layer design of substructures. Knowledge of the detailed design and material design of terraces, roof parking lots, heliports and green roofs. The issue of details. A basic overview of the structural and building physics principles.
Knowledge
Knowledge od the design of the clear and specific flat or pitched roof above various thermal and moisture internal environment. Waterproof layer design of substructures. Ability of the detailed design and material design of terraces, roof parking lots and green roofs.
Syllabus
1. Design of foundation structures in complex foundation conditions.
2.-3. Vertical building envelope.
4. Design of stairs with respect to modern materials and construction systems.
5. Sloping roofs.
6. Flat roofs.
7. Hall buildings.
8. Energy legislation, energy performance assessment of the building.
9. Houses with near zero consumption, renewable energy sources.
10. Ventilation, airtightness of building envelope.
11. Sound insulation of building structures. Assessment of air and impact noise.
12. Room acoustics, sound absorption. Reverberation time in the room.
13. Shading diagram and insolation assessment. Daylighting of buildings, daylighting factor.
Prerequisites
Technical terminology, basic requirements to various types of building (functional, structural thermal, acoustic and architectural), basic knowledge about constructional systems, competence to choice of system commensurate with type of building, spatial stiffness provision of constructional system. Drawing knowledge of basic constructional types, competence of building drawings reading.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
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
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Design of foundation structures in complex foundation conditions.
2.-3. Vertical building envelope.
4. Design of stairs with respect to modern materials and construction systems.
5. Sloping roofs.
6. Flat roofs.
7. Hall buildings.
8. Energy legislation, energy performance assessment of the building.
9. Houses with near zero consumption, renewable energy sources.
10. Ventilation, airtightness of building envelope.
11. Sound insulation of building structures. Assessment of air and impact noise.
12. Room acoustics, sound absorption. Reverberation time in the room.
13. Shading diagram and insolation assessment. Daylighting of buildings, daylighting factor.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus