Course detail

Saving and Building Adaptation

FAST-NHB042Acad. year: 2025/2026

Building-physical and building-technical relation valid for saving moisture masonry, rising damp causes of old building objects, building-technical survey and its evaluation, methody for reduce masonry humidity, project documentation for saving building, problems with bacis structure protection against radon infiltration. Solving question about wood construction protection against biological faktors in particular in ralation to reconstruction objects. Partition reconstruction problems,ceiling, chimney reconstruction and renovation.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Building-physical relation of water transfer in building contruction, building construction theory, mechanical endurance and stability of building construction, drawing building construction by valid rules.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Humidity efect on building construction behaviour, causes of rising damp, measure of building construction humidity, building-moisture survey processing, aplication of adittional reduce humidity methods, analysis of action biotic factor on building constructions, desing and realization measure against radon infiltraion into the reconstruction objects.
Student will be able to elaborate a project documentation for design sanitation of the building including constuctively-hygric exploration and biotic exploration. Student is also able to accomplish proposal method for sanitation of the building in relation to realized facts.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BENEŠ, Petr. M01-Sanace a adaptace budov. Studijní opora. Brno: FAST VUT. 2008 (CS)
ŠTEFEK, Zdeněk, ZEJDA, Pavel a KUPILÍK, Václav. Spodní stavba historických budov. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-80-271-9475-9. (CS)
VAŠEK, Milan. Havárie, poruchy a rekonstrukce. Praha: GRADA, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3526-9 (CS)
WITZANY, Jiří, Richard WASSERBAUER, Tomáš ČEJKA, Klára KROFTOVÁ a Radek ZIGLER. Obnova a rekonstrukce staveb: poruchy, degradace, sanace. 2. přepracované vydání. V Praze: České vysoké učení technické, 2018. ISBN 978-80-01-06360-6 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPA-SIS Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme NPC-MI Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jana Krupicová, Ph.D.
Ing. Lubor Kalousek, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Karel Šuhajda, Ph.D.
Ing. František Vajkay, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic theoretical knowledge of saving technics of building. Causes rising damp of building objects.
  • 2. Humidity transfer in building construction. Humidity measurement methods of building construction.
  • 3. Humidity survey of building objects. Project documentation for saving moisture masonry.
  • 4. Modern mechanical savings methods.
  • 5. Infusion curtain method for saving masonry. Electro-physical methods of saving moisture masonry.
  • 6. Saving methods based on flowing air, saving coat. Methods of bulding measures.
  • 7. Problems with plinth adjustment.
  • 8. Protection of reconstruction objects against radon infiltration.
  • 9. Partition reconstruction. Ceiling reconstruction.
  • 10. Chimney renovation and reconstruction.
  • 11. Adittional anchorage of building construction.
  • 12. Reconstruction of flat roof.
  • 13. Building objects protection against biological factors.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Monika Manychová, Ph.D.
Ing. Jana Krupicová, Ph.D.
Ing. František Vajkay, Ph.D.
Ing. Jindřich Sobotka, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. The assignment of the semester work, selection of the existing object.
  • 2. Focus on the current state.
  • 3.–4. Construction-technical and building-historical survey of the building.
  • 5.–6. Proposal for new use of the object.
  • 7. Suggestion of faults and defects.
  • 8. Moisture rehabilitation project, incl. technological regulation.
  • 9. The project to rehabilitate other faults in the building.
  • 10.–11. Thermal insulation design including calculation.