Course Details
Timber buildings
Academic Year 2024/25
BHA029 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-EVB Summer Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction: Single- and multi-storey timber buildings, available construction materials with regard to indoor and outdoor climate, construction processes, protection of structural timber.
2-3. Timber frame buildings: Existing variants, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.
4. SIP (Structural Insulated Panel) buildings: Description, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.
5. Mass timber (gluelam) buildings: Description, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.
6. Timber log buildings: Existing variants, design, advantages and disadvantages, typical details.
7. Special timber buildings: timber buildings in flood zones and seismic zones, high-rise timber buildings, etc.
8. Maintenance, repairs and rehabilitation of timber buildings.
9. Building physics: Thermal performance of timber buildings in comparison to traditional masonry buildings.
10. Building physics: Indoor climate in timber buildings
11. Fire safety in timber buildings: Residential buildings.
12. Fire safety in timber buildings: Industrial buildings and warehouses.
13. Fire safety in timber buildings: Public buildings
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus