Course Details
Building Constructions 4 (APS)
Academic Year 2025/26
BHA043 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Summer Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Building envelopes – terminology, function, climatic and boundary design conditions, loads, fundamental design principles. Introduction to the roofs of buildings.
- 2. Roofing of buildings – classification of roofs, main structural parts and components, types of the roof dewatering. Warm flat roofs – design principles, roof dewatering, material variants of individual layers of flat roofs.
- 3. Warm flat roofs – design variants (i.e. the classical arrangement of layers, inverted, combined, compact), green and walkable flat roofs, safety in use of roofs.
- 4. Cold flat roofs – structural design principles, roof dewatering, material variations, layers of flat roof composition, design of roof ventilation system. Truss girders.
- 5. Roof trusses – classification, carpentry joints, basic types of trusses. Purlin roofs – design solution at the hipped end and at the gable. Modern roof trusses – collar beam trusses and rafter systems.
- 6. Compositions of thermally insulated roofs above residential attic spaces.
- 7. Flashing – design of sheet metal constructions of roofs, walls, etc. Implementation and structural details of flat roofs.
- 8. Basic types of roof coverings, design principles and requirements for application. Implementation and structural details of pitched roofs.
- 9. External wall structures - design requirements for multi-layer and sandwich walls with an external (or internal) thermal insulation system. ETICS – materials and application technology of external insulation layers (i.e. anchoring, bonding, surface finishes). Principles of a solution of multi-layer wall structures with external thermal insulation and ventilated facade.
- 10. External wall structures – design principles, material variations of single-leaf homogeneous structures. Openings in external wall structures: windows – variants and materials.
- 11. Openings in external wall structures: windows – requirements for installation. External pedestrian doorsets and gates - variants, materials, requirements for installation. Ways of fitting windows and doors. Roof windows.
- 12. Curtain walling – application, structural and material types, anchoring of components.
- 13. The final lecture, examination instructions.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to practical classes, conditions for obtaining credits. Individual assignment of the building ground plan for the semester work, design of the floor structure above the last floor of a residential building.
- 2. Theoretical solutions of roof dewatering, variant designs.
- 3. Design of the warm flat roof. Design and evaluation of roof layers, design of the roof dewatering system.
- 4. Design of the cold flat roof. Design and evaluation of roof layers, design of the roof dewatering system, design of ventilation openings of the cold roof.
- 5. Design of roof truss of the pitched roof, choosing the right solution for the roof structure above residential attic spaces.
- 6. Design and evaluation of layers of residential attic space structures. Cross-sectional drawing of residential attic space.
- 7. Complex solutions of structural details of designed flat roofs, i.e. warm flat roof / cold flat roof.
- 8. Complex solutions of structural details of designed pitched roofs.
- 9. Design and evaluation of layers of the external wall structure.
- 10. Design of front facades - technical elevations.
- 11. Design of the suitable window type, details of installation.
- 12. Consultation lesson.
- 13. Semester work submission and final assessment.