Course Details

Building Chemistry

Academic Year 2025/26

BCA001 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Summer Semester 1st year

​ BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 1st year

​ BKC-SI Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. RNDr. Pavel Rovnaník, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Chemistry

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289593

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Atomic mass, the mole, composition of nucleous, isotopes, radioactivity, atomic structure.
  • 2. Quantum numbers, Pauli principle, Aufbau principle, Hund’s rule, periodic trends in atomic properties, periodic table.
  • 3. Chemical bonds, polarity of bonds, chemical equations, stoichiometry, dissociation, pH.
  • 4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rates, activated complex, catalysis, thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium.
  • 5. Phase states of matter, gases, liquids, solids, crystallography.
  • 6. Dispersions – gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsion, colloids, real solutes, tezides.
  • 7. Properties of selected inorganic compounds of carbon and silicon, chemistry and degradation of glass.
  • 8. Chemical composition and properties of natural and secondary raw materials used i building industry
  • 9. Production, composition and chemical properties of lime, hydraulic lime, gypsum plaster, Portland cement, and high alumina cement.
  • 10. Corrosion of binders, protection against degradation processes.
  • 11. Electrochemistry, galvanic cells, standard reduction potentials, electrolysis, metals and their corrosion.
  • 12. Chemistry of water and atmosphere. Chemical composition of wood and deterioration of timber structures. Bitumens.
  • 13. Composition of polymers based on the carbon chain, their chemical stability. Composition and properties of silicones, chemical durability.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Information regardeing laboratory session.
  • 2. Acids.
  • 3. Bases.
  • 4. Neutralization and hydrolysis of slts.
  • 5. Oxidation and reduction.
  • 6. Lime, plaster of Paris.
  • 7. Cements.
  • 8. Other building materials.
  • 9. Water.
  • 10. Water in consuption and the environment.
  • 11. Metals.
  • 12. Properties of selected organic compounds.
  • 13. Final test.