Course Details

Building Constructions 3 (S)

Academic Year 2024/25

BHA006 course is part of 3 study plans

BPC-SI / S Winter Semester 3rd year

BKC-SI Winter Semester 3rd year

BPA-SI Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Roofs: General classification of roofs, main structural components, drainage. Materials appliable in individual layers of roofs. Classification of warm flat roofs. 2. Warm flat roofs: Design principles, drainage specifics, material variants, roofing layers. 3. Cold flat roofs: Design principles, drainage specifics, material variants, roofing layers, design of ventilation. Truss girders. 4. Purlin roof trusses: Classification, carpentry joints, design of valleys and gables. Design of monopitch roofs. 5. Modern roof trusses. Composition of roofing above attic spaces. 6. Most common roofing materials: design and application. 7. Tinsmith works and products. Assembly details of flat and pitched roofs. 8. Assembly details of warm and cold flat roofs, pitched roofs, and roof claddings. 9. Assembly details of warm and cold flat roofs, pitched roofs, and roof claddings. 10. Building envelope: Terminology, functions, design principles and boundary conditions. 11. Envelope walls: Design principles of single-leaf sandwich walls with external (or internal) positioning of thermal insulation. Materials and construction processes applied in external thermal insulating composite systems (gluing, anchoring and rendering). 12. Envelope walls: Design principles and materials of single-leaf walls. 13. Lightweight metal-plastic curtain walls: Classification, application, materials and anchoring.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Site plan 2. Consultations, explanation of selected roofing designs 3. Cold flat roof of a single-family house 4. Warm flat roof of a single-family house (purlin truss) 5. Consultations 6. Roof truss of a single-family house: Modern king post truss 7. Roof truss of a single-family house: Collar beam truss (thermal insulation between and above the rafters) 8. Consultations 9. Roof plan drawing: View of the roofing surface 10. Roof truss assembly details 11. Building envelope assembly details 12. Consultations 13. Credit