Course Details

Special Technologies

Academic Year 2024/25

CW059 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Current trends in construction technology, possibilities and visions, contents of scientific research activities at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at BUT. 2. New technologies and modern options for the construction of buildings. 3. Modern materials and technologies for the execution of engineering structures. 4. Energetically self-sufficient buildings, passive houses, ecotechnology, their real-world use and execution. 5. New materials and insulation technologies: against water, against radon, thermal insulation including systems providing additional thermal insulation to building envelope structures, new outer shell technologies. 6. Current options for the use of anchoring techniques in civil engineering. Protective and supporting structures. 7. Trenchless technologies and the reconstruction of underground utility networks. 8. New options for the surface treatment of engineering structures. 9. Demolition of reinforced concrete structures and recycling of materials. 10. Construction readiness for the implementation of special technologies as part of the interior equipment of buildings used for fire and safety protection and the conveyance of data distribution wiring.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the subject, organizational instructions, acquaintance with the requirements for the credit, receipt of documents and individual assignments for the application of a special technology at a specific construction. 2. Assignment of a selected technical guideline for the execution of a construction sub-process from the area of building construction using new, non-traditional, special materials or an innovative construction procedure. 3. Production of a selected technical guideline for the execution of a construction sub-process from the area of building construction using new, non-traditional, special materials or an innovative construction procedure. 4. Consultation regarding individual assignments. 5. Presentation and defence of individual assignments, field trip to a construction site where new technologies are being used. 6. Assignment of a selected technical guideline for the execution of a construction sub-process from the area of building construction using new, non-traditional, special materials or an innovative construction procedure. 7. Production of a selected technical regulation for the execution of a construction sub-process from the area of building construction using new, non-traditional, special materials or an innovative construction procedure. 8. Consultation regarding individual assignments. 9. – 10. Presentation and defence of individual assignments, evaluation.