Course Details

Construction Technology of Urban Roads

Academic Year 2024/25

XM001 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

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. Czech national body of standards regarding asphalt pavements 2. Pavement subgrade of urban roads – construction materials and soil subgrade classification system 3. Pavement construction of urban roads – quality and control acceptance 4. Bases courses – grounted courses, unbound courses, hydraulically bound courses 5. Surface courses of urban roads – rigid pavements, flexible pavements, blocks of flats 6. Hot mix asphalt paving – paving, rolling procedure, requirements 7. Pavement drainage design of urban roads 8. Pavement distress survey and typical distresses of urban roads 9. Maintenance and rehabilitation methods for asphalt pavement 10. The usage of recycled materials 11. Road marking and its implementation 12. Skid resistance characteristics 13. Urban roads in the world

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Individual task dealing with earth work 2. Consultation of earth work solutions 3. Standardization and Quality control 4. Individual task dealing with different technologies of base laeyrs 5 Individual task dealing with hot mix technology. 6. Presentation of earth work and base courses tasks 7. Presentation of hot mix technologies 8. Excursion to road building company