Course Details

Building Constructions 3 (E)

Academic Year 2025/26

BHA016 course is part of 2 study plans

​ BPC-SI / E Winter Semester 3rd year

​ BPC-MI Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Libor Matějka, CSc. Ph.D., MBA

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289767

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