Course Details

Building Constructions 2 (S)

Academic Year 2025/26

BHB004 course is part of 4 study plans

​ BPA-SI Summer Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-MI Summer Semester 2nd year

​ BKC-SI Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miloš Lavický, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289610

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.