Course Details

Progressive building materials

Academic Year 2025/26

BJB025 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Rudolf Hela, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/290005

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Progressive fired masonry for environmentally friendly buildings.
  • 2. Progressive façade and paving ceramic tiles for environmentally friendly buildings.
  • 3. Aspects of application of ceramic tiles in zarchitectonic and technical terms.
  • 4. Heat insulating materials for low energy and passive buildings
  • 5. Environmentally-friendly insulation materials from secondary raw materials and natural thermal insulation, insulation systems of building structures
  • 6. Acoustic-insulating materials for environmentally friendly construction
  • 7. Waterproofing materials for environmentally friendly construction
  • 8. Architectural visual concrete, special concrete with photocatalytic effect
  • 9. Ultra lightweight constructional concrete with a bulk density of 800 to 1200 kg / m3
  • 10. FRP composite materials for application to environmentally exposed environments, materials with higher resistance to high temperature
  • 11. Façade elements based on cement matrix fiber composites
  • 12. Elements of light building materials
  • 13. Plastics for construction products

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Progressive fired masonry for environmentally friendly buildings.
  • 2. Progressive façade and paving ceramic tiles for environmentally friendly buildings.
  • 3. Aspects of application of ceramic tiles in zarchitectonic and technical terms.
  • 4. Heat insulating materials for low energy and passive buildings
  • 5. Environmentally-friendly insulation materials from secondary raw materials and natural thermal insulation, insulation systems of building structures
  • 6. Acoustic-insulating materials for environmentally friendly construction
  • 7. Waterproofing materials for environmentally friendly construction
  • 8. Architectural visual concrete, special concrete with photocatalytic effect
  • 9. Ultra lightweight constructional concrete with a bulk density of 800 to 1200 kg / m3
  • 10. FRP composite materials for application to environmentally exposed environments, materials with higher resistance to high temperature
  • 11. Façade elements based on cement matrix fiber composites
  • 12. Elements of light building materials
  • 13. Plastics for construction products