Course Details

Selected Chapters of Construction Processes

Academic Year 2025/26

NWA016 course is part of 2 study plans

​ NPC-SIE Winter Semester 1st year

​ NPC-SIR Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Motyčka, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295782

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.