Course Details
Ecology in the Building Industry
Academic Year 2024/25
BJA024 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-MI Winter Semester 4th 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. Ecosystem, biosphere, lithosphere, pedosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biochemical cycle.
2. Atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere pollution, combustion gases, waste waters.
3. Biological needs of humans, environmental comfort, chemical and physical effects. Radioactivity, radon and its sources in secondary raw materials.
4. Toxicology, determination of toxicity, survey of toxic substances and the possible sources of them. Laws and decrees concerning the environment and handling with wastes, EU regulations.
5. Classification of technologies from the point of view of waste formation, classification of wastes, composition and radioactivity of wastes. Handling of waste – accumulation, haulage, sorting and recycling of waste.
6. Methods of treatment of wastes – physical, physico-chemical and chemical.
7. Thermal treatment of wastes, municipal refuses incinerating plants, incinerating plants for other and toxic refuses, other methods of thermal treatment.
8. Storing of wastes, technological parts of storing areas, types of storage sites, rehabilitation.
9. Wastes utilized in the building industry, their classification and characteristics of individual groups. Wastes from building production and possibilities of their recycling.
10. Wastes from power producing industry, chemical and phase composition, reactivity, pozzuolana activity, possibilities of utilization in building industry.
11. Wastes from metallurgical industry, chemical and phase composition, reactivity, possibility of utilization in building industry.
12. Modern earthen buildings.
13. ETICS – classical composition and use of alternative raw materials.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1.Introductory seminar - laboratory regulations, basic terminology, topics of the ECO PROJECT.
2.Preparation of samples for determination of CuCl2 extract and related theory.
3.Laboratory work within the ECO PROJECT.
4.Seminar focusing on using by-products in the cement based composites.
5.Seminar focusing on using by-products in the ceramics.
6.Laboratory seminar to determine the properties and subsequently the type of building materials.
7.Laboratory seminar to determine the type of contamination of water samples + laboratory work within the ECO PROJECT.
8.Determination of CuCl2 extract of the reference and modified mortar.
9.Completion of experiments and testing of products obtained during the ECO PROJECT.
10.Excursion to a cement plant focused on waste co-incineration.
11.Processing the results of the EKO PROJECT according to the required form, including research design of the issue.
12.Presentation of the results of the EKO PROJECT and its evaluation, submitting of reports.
13.Credit test.