Course Details
Building Constructions 2 (S)
Academic Year 2024/25
BHB004 course is part of 4 study plans
BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year
BPC-MI Summer Semester 2nd year
BKC-SI Summer Semester 2nd year
BPA-SI Summer Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
4 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
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Horizontal load-bearing structures – functional and mechanical requirements. Connections of horizontal and vertical load-bearing structures. Spandrel beams. Vaults – structural solution, mechanical acting of vaults.
2. Horizontal load-bearing structures – cast-in-place slabs.
3. Horizontal load-bearing structures – prefabricated (precast) and half prefabricated slabs.
4. Horizontal load-bearing structures – timber joist ceilings, metal ceilings, composite slabs.
5. Overhanging and recessed structures – balcony, loggia, portico, oriel windows and cornices – material solutions, mechanical requirements, thermal design.
6. Groundworks and excavations. Founding soil. Construction and hydrogeological survey.
7. Shallow foundations – classification and structural solutions.
8. Shallow foundations – specific criterions of founding.
9. Deep foundations – classification and structural solutions. Retaining walls.
10. Foundation construction on property boundaries. Expansion joints, settlement joints and construction joints in load bearing and non-loadbearing structures.
11. Substructure. Damp proofing – basic criterion and requirements.
12. Damp proofing – specific/exceptional requirements. Protection against radon gas infiltration.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Horizontal load-bearing structures. Design of cast-in-place slabs.
2. Horizontal load-bearing structures. Design of half-prefabricated slabs.
3. Horizontal load-bearing structures. Design precast slabs.
4. Overhanging and recessed structures. Balcony design.
5. Shallow foundations. Design of foundation strips loaded by walls.
6. Shallow foundations. Foundation plan drawing – drafting of foundation strips.
7. Shallow foundations. Design of pad foundation loaded by a post/column.
8. Shallow foundations. Foundation plan drawing – drafting of pad foundations of a post slab structure.
9. Shallow foundations. Specific foundation construction.
10. Groundworks. Building excavation plan.
11. Damp proofing. Design of damp proof system.
12. Submission and final evaluation of presented work.