Course Details
Selected Chapters from Building Constructions 1
Academic Year 2024/25
CH004 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Compositions of double and tripleroofs, safety waterproofing materials (micro-perforated, micro-porous and monolithic).
2. Thermal insulations of pitched roofs including materials based on thermal radiation reflectivity.
3. Roofing of sheet metal (smooth, sinuous, simulative roofing tiles), plastic, bitumen, stone, wood (boards, shingles), thatch, solar and exotic.
4. Pitched roof designing in mountain regions (securing of pitches roofs against snow slide and upward wind lift). Green pitched roofs.
5. Waterproof layers of flat roofs by bituminous felts (bitumen, bearing infill, surface finish) and their use.
6. Waterproof layers of flat roofs by plastic foils (thermoplastic, elastomer, thermoplastic-elastomer) their use and laying technology. Solar foils. Spread waterproof layer.
7. Ways of flat roof stabilization against the upward wind lift (sticking, stabilization layers, mechanical anchoring).
8. Roof terraces and traffic roofs (parking lots, heliports). Design principles, details.
9. Green roofs. Types of vegetation, design principles, details.
10. Reconstructions of flat roofs.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Specifying of the flat roof - dewatering the study-plan 1:200
2.-3. Ground plan and cut single skin flat roof 1:50
4.-5. Two variants compositions single skin flat-roof material specifications
6.-7. Details at 1:10 the attic, roof drain, dilation, various compositions
8.Drainage and composition of roof double-shell
9. Practical demonstration of implementation of waterproofing layers of flat roofs
10. Two variants of double-shell roof compositions of various trims