Course Details

Failures and Reconstruction

Academic Year 2025/26

BHB013 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Summer Semester 4th year

​ BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year

​ BKC-SI Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

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/289614

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the subject, terminology, durability and life-span of buildings.
  • 2. Surveying of existing state in buildings.
  • 3. Fundamental surveys in buildings – technical survey, historical and architectural survey (preliminary consideration of building defects and deficiencies – visual exploration), Development of building industry law in Bohemia and Moravia since the second half of the 19th century.
  • 4. Design regulations for the project documentation of building reconstruction and renovation .
  • 5. Cracks in building constructions – characteristics of cracks (active and passive crack defects, tension, compression or shear cracks , etc.) causes of cracks in building constructions and ways their rehabilitation.
  • 6. Defects of vertical structures (columns, load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, partitions) and their rehabilitations.
  • 7. Openings in vertical structures, supports and bracing for rehabilitation processes.
  • 8. Defects of horizontal constructions - the first part (lintels, girders, floor structures, wooden beam floor structures) and ways of their rehabilitation. Defects of horizontal constructions - the second part (vaults, floor constructions) – types, defects, rehabilitation.
  • 9. Staircases – main defects and failures, repair possibilities. Foundation structures – failures, ways of rehabilitation, enlargement of width and depth of existing foundations.
  • 10. Defects and failures of saddle roofs – causes, rehabilitation, attic extensions and superstructures.
  • 11. Summary.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Preparation of the building subject a suitable for reconstruction.
  • 2. Building-technical and building-historical research of the building.
  • 3.-4. Taking measure and drawing current state of the object.
  • 5.-6. Individual entering of the building reconstruction the given object.
  • 7.-10. Design and drawing of adaptation or modernisation object.
  • 11. Final consultation and elaboration submission to the credit.