Course Details

Selected Chapters of Construction Processes

Academic Year 2023/24

NWA016 course is part of 2 study plans

NPC-SIR Winter Semester 1st year

NPC-SIE Winter Semester 1st year

The subject covers the study of the execution of selected processes used in the construction of engineering structures and buildings. It explains the technological, spatial and time structure of individual selected building processes, the readiness requirements for construction sites and the rules for their implementation. A substantial part of the subject focuses on the execution of underground structures, focusing on engineering techniques for creating the special foundations for constructions to be used in the execution of cut-and-cover underground structures , and an overview of standard and modern tunnelling systems and assemblies, machines and devices for the construction of underground structures.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

To acquire basic knowledge of realization of selected construction processes of underground, building and engineering constructions. To enable subsequent study of time scheduling, modelling, optimisation and rational management of site operations.

Knowledge

The students will master the objective of the Selected Issues of Technology of Construction Processes course, they acquire knowledge of the realization of the selected building processes of underground, building and engineering constructions. This knowledge enables subsequent study of the time planning, modelling, optimisation and rational management of site operations.

Syllabus

1. Engineering techniques used in the special foundation of constructions with relation to excavated underground structures.
2. Casing structures (stent walls , piles, underground walls), injection and anchoring in rock surroundings.
3. Nomenclature of underground structures. Tunnelling systems and assemblies.
4. Standard assemblies. Drilling and blasting. Ring Method.
5. New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM). Peripheral Notch Method . Microtunnelling.
6. Machines and equipment for the construction of underground structures (bored, cut-and-cover, combined, microtunnelling).
7. Production of steel and timber structures, welding of steel structures, connecting devices for steel and timber structures, transportation to the construction site.
8. Main methods of assembling steel and timber structures.
9. Execution of assembled ceiling structures.
10. Special concreting technologies.
11. Structural insulation, suitability of use and methods of execution.
12. Options for and methods of execution of industrial floors and floors in buildings. Cast and self-levelling floors.
13. Execution of roof and outer shells of buildings.

Prerequisites

Students must possess basic knowledge from the areas of geology, geomechanics, building foundations, and the design of buildings and traffic structures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded 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. Engineering techniques used in the special foundation of constructions with relation to excavated underground structures. 2. Casing structures (stent walls , piles, underground walls), injection and anchoring in rock surroundings. 3. Nomenclature of underground structures. Tunnelling systems and assemblies. 4. Standard assemblies. Drilling and blasting. Ring Method. 5. New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM). Peripheral Notch Method . Microtunnelling. 6. Machines and equipment for the construction of underground structures (bored, cut-and-cover, combined, microtunnelling). 7. Production of steel and timber structures, welding of steel structures, connecting devices for steel and timber structures, transportation to the construction site. 8. Main methods of assembling steel and timber structures. 9. Execution of assembled ceiling structures. 10. Special concreting technologies. 11. Structural insulation, suitability of use and methods of execution. 12. Options for and methods of execution of industrial floors and floors in buildings. Cast and self-levelling floors. 13. Execution of roof and outer shells of buildings.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Assignment of the semester programme – a selected part of an underground structure. 2. Overview of underground construction and boring technologies – video with commentary. 3.–4. New Austrian Tunnelling Method and special shields – video with commentary. 5.–6. Design of a casing structure using the Geo 5 programme. 7. Execution of metal structures – production of steel and timber structures. 8. Execution of metal structures – welding, connecting devices, main assembly methods. 9.–10. Execution of prefabricated ceiling structures. Construction systems, machines and mechanisms, workers, assembly procedures, quality requirements. 11.–12. Production of technical documentation for the installation of an assigned ceiling structure. 13. Evaluation of completed tasks, defence of proposed solutions.