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
Institute
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
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