Course Details
Building Constructions 3 (S)
Academic Year 2024/25
BHA006 course is part of 3 study plans
BPC-SI / S Winter Semester 3rd year
BKC-SI Winter Semester 3rd year
BPA-SI Winter Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Roofs: General classification of roofs, main structural components, drainage. Materials appliable in individual layers of roofs. Classification of warm flat roofs.
2. Warm flat roofs: Design principles, drainage specifics, material variants, roofing layers.
3. Cold flat roofs: Design principles, drainage specifics, material variants, roofing layers, design of ventilation. Truss girders.
4. Purlin roof trusses: Classification, carpentry joints, design of valleys and gables. Design of monopitch roofs.
5. Modern roof trusses. Composition of roofing above attic spaces.
6. Most common roofing materials: design and application.
7. Tinsmith works and products. Assembly details of flat and pitched roofs.
8. Assembly details of warm and cold flat roofs, pitched roofs, and roof claddings.
9. Assembly details of warm and cold flat roofs, pitched roofs, and roof claddings.
10. Building envelope: Terminology, functions, design principles and boundary conditions.
11. Envelope walls: Design principles of single-leaf sandwich walls with external (or internal) positioning of thermal insulation. Materials and construction processes applied in external thermal insulating composite systems (gluing, anchoring and rendering).
12. Envelope walls: Design principles and materials of single-leaf walls.
13. Lightweight metal-plastic curtain walls: Classification, application, materials and anchoring.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Site plan
2. Consultations, explanation of selected roofing designs
3. Cold flat roof of a single-family house
4. Warm flat roof of a single-family house (purlin truss)
5. Consultations
6. Roof truss of a single-family house: Modern king post truss
7. Roof truss of a single-family house: Collar beam truss (thermal insulation between and above the rafters)
8. Consultations
9. Roof plan drawing: View of the roofing surface
10. Roof truss assembly details
11. Building envelope assembly details
12. Consultations
13. Credit