Course detail

Modernization and Reconstruction

FAST-NHB058Acad. year: 2025/2026

The subject deals with the creation of the drawing documentation of reconstructed buildings. Students will learn about the development of building industry laws in Bohemia and Moravia and about building construction systems and principles at of standards and design regulations. It deals mainly about the focus of the present state of the buildings, the construction- technical and historic research, identification of failures by the external symptoms and basic methods for their removal.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Entry knowledge

Partition of buildings, drawing and designing of building constructions, principal knowledge of building heat engineering, acoustics and illumination, basic knowledge of structural mechanics, concrete and masonry constructions, metal and wooden constructions, building equipment, building technology and control.

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 elementary knowledge in the field of maintenance and modernization of housing stock, protection of historic buildings and appropriate technical regulations and standards following the newest known research results.
Student must handle the aim of the course, which is to obtain elementary knowledge in the field of maintenance and modernization of housing stock, protection of historic buildings and appropriate technical regulations and standards following the newest known research results.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

VLČEK, Milan a kol. Poruchy a rekonstrukce v pozemních stavbách II. Brno: FAST VUT, 1996. ISBN 80-214-0864-2 (CS)
VLČEK, Milan a kol. Projektování rekonstrukcí. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 1996. ISBN 80-214-0614-3 (CS)
VLČEK Milan a Petr BENEŠ. M01-Poruchy a rekonstrukce staveb. Studijní opora. Brno: FAST VUT. 2007 (CS)
VLČEK, Milan a Petr BENEŠ. Poruchy a rekonstrukce staveb. Studijní opora. Brno: FAST VUT, 2006. (CS)

Recommended reading

ČSN EN ISO 7518. Výkresy pozemních staveb – Kreslení demolic a přestaveb. 2000.  (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

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

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Miloš Lavický, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the subject, terminology, durability and life-span of buildings.
  • 2. Surveying of existing state in buildings.
  • 3. Fundamental surveys in buildings – technical survey, historical and architectural survey (preliminary consideration of building defects and deficiencies – visual exploration), Development of building industry law in Bohemia and Moravia since the second half of the 19th century.
  • 4. Design regulations for the project documentation of building reconstruction and renovation.
  • 5. Cracks in building constructions – characteristics of cracks (active and passive crack defects, tension, compression or shear cracks , etc.) causes of cracks in building constructions and ways their rehabilitation.
  • 6. Defects of vertical structures (columns, load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, partitions) and their rehabilitations.
  • 7. Openings in vertical structures, supports and bracing for rehabilitation processes.
  • 8. Defects of horizontal constructions – the first part (lintels, girders, floor structures, wooden beam floor. structures) and ways of their rehabilitation.
  • 9. Defects of horizontal constructions – the second part (vaults, floor constructions) – types, defects, rehabilitation.
  • 10. Staircases – main defects and failures, repair possibilities.
  • 11. Foundation structures – failures, ways of rehabilitation, enlargement of width and depth of existing foundations.
  • 12. Defects and failures of saddle roofs – causes, rehabilitation, attic extensions and superstructures.
  • 13. Summary.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Dáša Sukopová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Preparation of the building subject a suitable for reconstruction.
  • 2. Individual entering of the building reconstruction the given object.
  • 3. Final consultation and elaboration submission to the credit.