Course detail

Basics of Management And Metrology in the Construction Industry

FAST-NIB012Acad. year: 2025/2026

Introduction, organization and completion of the course, EU and the Czech Republic legislation in terms of product responsibility, the accreditation system in the Czech Republic and EU regulatory basis of the accreditation process, the Ministry of Transport requirements for building materials, products and more.
Standards for management systems; Definition of basic concepts concerning management systems; General principles of management systems.
Selected standardized management systems.
Requirements for test laboratories - Systems and technical competence.
Statistical Methods in Civil Engineering, assurance of test results quality, the estimation of uncertainty in quantitative testing, proficiency testing programs.
Design of Experiments (DOE), assessment of production process capability, statistical control, statistical sampling and inspection and test plans.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Tomáš Vymazal, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Building Testing (SZK)

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge about building testing methods, basic knowledge of description statistics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Not applicable.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Cikrle, P. a kol.: NDT Zkoušení ve stavebnictví. Příručka kurzu CŽV, ISBN 978-80-214-4198-9, SZK, VUT v Brně FAST, Brno, 2010 (CS)
Vymazal T.: Jakost ve stavebnictví. CERM Brno 2003 (CS)
Vymazal, T.,  Misák, P. Metrologie ve zkušebnictví, studijní opora, Brno 2013, 0612. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-SIM Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Tomáš Vymazal, Ph.D.
Ing. Petr Misák, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, organization and completion of the course, EU and the Czech Republic legislation in terms of product responsibility, the accreditation system in the Czech Republic and EU regulatory basis of the accreditation process, the Ministry of Transport requirements for building materials, products and more.
  • 2. Standards for management systems; Definition of basic concepts concerning management systems; General principles of management systems.
  • 3. Quality Management System; Environmental Management System.
  • 4. Environmental Management System; OHS management system.
  • 5. Requirements for test laboratories I. – system competence.
  • 6. Requirements for test laboratories II. – Technical competence.
  • 7.–8. Statistical Methods in Civil Engineering, assurance of test results quality, the estimation of uncertainty in quantitative testing, proficiency testing programs.
  • 9.–10. Design of Experiments (DOE), assessment of production process capability, statistical control, statistical sampling and inspection and test plans.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Petr Misák, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Documents MPA, EA, ILAC and IAF, the information available from Internet sources the ČIA and ÚNMZ, relevant legislation of Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic concerning roads.
  • 2. Evaluation of the quality of concrete using non-destructive testing methods.
  • 3. Evaluation of non-destructive testing of concrete in accordance with procedures in various ČSN-task.
  • 4. ČSN product requirements for measuring and testing equipment.
  • 5. Case studies and tasks with of a laboratory system theme.
  • 6. Case studies and tasks with the theme of the technical competence of laboratories.
  • 7.–8. An example of statistical software and work with it.
  • 9.–10. Practical examples of statistical processing tasks using specialized software.