26 hours, optionally

1. Introduction and performance issues in building construction; process of building design, a balanced cooperation professions. Basic functional, material, technological and technical requirements for construction. 2. Types of buildings (residential, industrial, agricultural and special structures). Features of the house and its interior and environment - a brief typological rules.. 3. Basic terminology, overview of basic structures. 4. Requirements at building constructions; resistance of constructions opposite external impacts; Requirements at conteinmant and hygiene inside surroundings; technological requirements; ecological requirements; economic requirements. Stability and spatial rigidity of the building, the principles for structural design of buildings. 5. The principles of proportionality, the principle of modular coordination, implementation module in building construction, coordination dimensions. 6. Construction materials; physical and chemical properties of materials. The building envelope, finishes, windows and doors. 7. Basic introduction to the supporting vertical and horizontal structures. 8. Brief introduction to: Foundations, roofing systems for buildings, inclined support structure. 9. Designing in construction; building legislation, Czech technical standards (model building system principle design solution). 10. Process and realization of building; main participients of process; period of process. The methodology of of the design process works. Legislation – technical requirements for buildings. 11. Caring for buildings: maintenance and repair, the modernization and reconstruction of buildings. 12. Problems of using buildings by persons with reduction ability of movement and orientation; principle of design; health sense of quality inside surroudings of building. 13. Thermal protection of buildings and principles for saving energy - indoor thermal comfort, thermal properties of structures, energy efficiency.