Course detail
Building Constructions 4
FAST-BHA008Acad. year: 2025/2026
The course deepens fundamental knowledge of building design. It focuses on supplementary information in various fields of building design (flooring, suspended ceilings, finishes). It follows previous courses of Building Construction and completes overview of all topics related with building design.
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Number of ECTS credits
5
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Department
Institute of Building Structures (PST)
Offered to foreign students
Of all faculties
Entry knowledge
The students deepen their knowledge of building design. It is assumed that students already have fundamental knowledge of building design on the level of Building Constructions 1, 2 and 3 courses.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
To obtain fundamental knowledge in the field of contructions of roofing, external walls, windows, doors and gateways in external walls, windows in roofs of building, to aquire theoretical and functional relationship, to gain experience and ability for design.
Student will be able to make a proposal solution of contructions of roofing, external walls, windows, doors and gateways in external walls, windows in roofs of building
Student will be able to make a proposal solution of contructions of roofing, external walls, windows, doors and gateways in external walls, windows in roofs of building
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
ČSN EN ISO 717-1. Akustika – Hodnocení zvukové izolace stavebních konstrukcí a v budovách – Část 1: Vzduchová neprůzvučnost. 2013.
ČSN EN ISO 717-2. Akustika – Hodnocení zvukové izolace stavebních konstrukcí a v budovách – Část 2: Kročejová neprůzvučnost. 2013
ČSN EN 13119. Lehké obvodové pláště. 2018.
ČSN 73 0540-1. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 1: Terminologie. 2005.
ČSN 73 0540-2. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 2: Požadavky. 2011.
ČSN 73 0540-2 ZMĚNA Z1. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 2: Požadavky. 2012.
ČSN 73 0540-3. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 3: Návrhové hodnoty veličin. 2005.
ČSN 73 0540-4. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 4: Výpočtové metody. 2005.
ČSN 73 3610. Navrhování klempířských konstrukcí. 2008.
ČSN 73 3610 ZMĚNA Z1. Navrhování klempířských konstrukcí. 2008.
ČSN 74 7250. Skládané pláště – Požadavky na zabudování. 2018.
ČSN 74 7251. Skládané pláště, obklady a pláště z panelů – Požadavky na přesnost osazení, kvalitu a vzhled. 2018.
ČSN EN ISO 717-2. Akustika – Hodnocení zvukové izolace stavebních konstrukcí a v budovách – Část 2: Kročejová neprůzvučnost. 2013
ČSN EN 13119. Lehké obvodové pláště. 2018.
ČSN 73 0540-1. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 1: Terminologie. 2005.
ČSN 73 0540-2. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 2: Požadavky. 2011.
ČSN 73 0540-2 ZMĚNA Z1. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 2: Požadavky. 2012.
ČSN 73 0540-3. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 3: Návrhové hodnoty veličin. 2005.
ČSN 73 0540-4. Tepelná ochrana budov – Část 4: Výpočtové metody. 2005.
ČSN 73 3610. Navrhování klempířských konstrukcí. 2008.
ČSN 73 3610 ZMĚNA Z1. Navrhování klempířských konstrukcí. 2008.
ČSN 74 7250. Skládané pláště – Požadavky na zabudování. 2018.
ČSN 74 7251. Skládané pláště, obklady a pláště z panelů – Požadavky na přesnost osazení, kvalitu a vzhled. 2018.
Recommended reading
ALLEN, Eward a Joseph LANO. Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods [ISBN 978-1-118-13891-5], 2011.
BERGMAN, Theodore L., Adrienne S. LAVINE, Frank P. INCROPERA a David P. DeWITT. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 8th Edition [ISBN 978-0470-50197-9]. 2017.
Fire Protection Association. Fire Safety and Risk Management: for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management [ISBN 978-0-415-81731-8]. 2017.
KILMER, Rosemary a W. Otie KILMER. Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors [ISBN 978-0470190418], 2011.
MAEKAWA, Zyun-iti, Jens H. RINDEL a Peter LORD. Environmental and Architectural Acoustics [ISBN 978-0-415-44900-7]. 2011.
REID, Esmond. Understanding Buildings. A Multidisciplinary Approach [ISBN 978-1-138-83691-4]. 2016.
BERGMAN, Theodore L., Adrienne S. LAVINE, Frank P. INCROPERA a David P. DeWITT. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 8th Edition [ISBN 978-0470-50197-9]. 2017.
Fire Protection Association. Fire Safety and Risk Management: for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management [ISBN 978-0-415-81731-8]. 2017.
KILMER, Rosemary a W. Otie KILMER. Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors [ISBN 978-0470190418], 2011.
MAEKAWA, Zyun-iti, Jens H. RINDEL a Peter LORD. Environmental and Architectural Acoustics [ISBN 978-0-415-44900-7]. 2011.
REID, Esmond. Understanding Buildings. A Multidisciplinary Approach [ISBN 978-1-138-83691-4]. 2016.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPA-SI Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme BPC-SI Bachelor's
specialization S , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme BPC-EVB Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme BKC-SI Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme NPC-SIE Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Flooring: Functional and operational requirements (thermal, acoustic, operational, fire safety, etc.), flooring properties and their testing, design and construction of flooring.
- 2. Flooring: Role of individual layers, materials, flooring finishes, critical details, dilatation
- 3. Flooring: Industrial floors and their specifics.
- 4. Suspended ceilings: Functional requirements, design principles and methodology, user requirements (acoustics, thermal, structural, fire safety, hygienic, etc.)
- 5. Suspended ceilings: Types of suspended ceilings (optical, acoustic, fire safety, etc.), materials, construction, critical details
- 6. Finishes of interior walls and ceilings: plasters, tiles, paints, requirements (functional, operational, hygienic, dilation, etc.)
- 6. Curtain walls: Types (technological, acoustic, etc.), designing, construction.
- 7. Joinery and locksmith works: Bills of quantities, necessary specifications and drawings.
- 8. Doors, gates and windows: Legal requirements, design of critical details with regard to building physics (thermal, acoustics, daylighting), influence of boundary conditions on fulfillment of hygienic, operational and functional requirements, choice of optimal solution in case of mutually excluding legal requirements
- 9. Windows in envelope walls: Variants, construction requirements and processes.
- 10. Doors and gates in envelope walls: Variants, construction requirements and processes. Roof windows. Doors, windows, niches, etc. in the interior.
- 11. Chimneys and ventilation bodies - design and implementation principles, link to layout design, design requirements, types and methods of solution.
- 12. Specific materials and chemicals used in construction industry, their types and properties. Anchoring elements and their application.
- 13. Garages, garage parking spaces, parking systems: Variants and design.
Exercise
26 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Composition of structures: Floors.
- 2. Composition of structures: Other.
- 3. Bills of quantities: Tinsmith.
- 4. Bills of quantities: Joinery and locksmith.
- 5. Drawing of cast-in-place flooring and tile splicing.
- 6. Drawing of suspended ceilings.
- 7. Consultations.
- 8. Bills of quantities: Doors, windows and gates.
- 9. Summary, accompanying and technical reports.
- 10. Consultations.
- 11. Drawing of elevations and 3D visualization of a building.
- 12. Consultations.
- 13. Credit.