Course Details

Reconstruction Technologies

Academic Year 2025/26

NWA028 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIR Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Yvetta Diaz, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295828

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Construction technology investigations into buildings, and methods of documenting them.
  • 2. Technical documentation for the reconstruction of buildings and principles for the design of technological procedures employed during reconstructions.
  • 3. Restoration of foundation structures from the perspective of their load-bearing capacity.
  • 4. Methods and procedures for the removal of moisture from structures.
  • 5. Restoration and reinforcement of load-bearing vertical and horizontal structures.
  • 6. Proposals for repairs and reconstructions of wooden trusses, methods of replacing faulty elements in trusses.
  • 7. Reconstruction of concrete panel buildings – outer shells, roofs, balconies, enclosed balconies and other presented structures.
  • 8. Reconstruction of concrete panel buildings – internal layout, prefabricated bathroom and toilet sections, interior installations.
  • 9. Reconstructions of heritage structures, historic building materials and materials suitable for reconstruction work.
  • 10. Examples of executed building reconstructions.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Production of documentation for a building intended to undergo complete reconstruction.
  • 2. Plotting of identified defects in structures.
  • 3. Technical guidelines for the execution of the reconstruction of the structural part of a building, and the costing of such reconstruction.
  • 4. Consultation regarding assigned tasks; evaluation of said tasks.
  • 5. Technical procedure for the rehabilitation of damp walls – proposal of a suitable type of rehabilitation.
  • 6. Economic evaluation of the proposed rehabilitation, alternative solutions and their comparison.
  • 7. Reconstruction of a selected part of a concrete panel house, proposal for its execution.
  • 8. Production of technical guidelines for the reconstruction of a selected part of a concrete panel building.
  • 9. Field trip to a construction site where reconstruction work is being carried out.
  • 10. Consultation regarding assigned tasks; evaluation of said tasks.