Course Details

Water management in buildings

Academic Year 2025/26

BPA015 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Hluštík, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Municipal Water Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/290012

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, legal background (Water act).
  • 2. Types of water in buildings and their disposal.
  • 3. Sources of drinking water in buildings, types of waste water in buildings.
  • 4. Technical solution and overview of equipment for rainwater and greywater management.
  • 5. Rainwater and gray water quality, mechanical pre-treatment of rainwater.
  • 6. Retention rainwater and gray water.
  • 7. Rainwater infiltration (soil, permeability, ...), calculations, evaporation from water level.
  • 8. Green and blue roofs, water town squares and water accumulation.
  • 9. Wastewater treatment methods, root and domestic wastewater treatment plants.
  • 10. Minimization of water consumption, use of rainwater, water recycling (use of gray water), heat recycling (gray water energy, heat recovery units).
  • 11. Rainwater management in municipalities and towns.
  • 12. Sustainable water management, island systems in buildings without access to fresh water supply.
  • 13. Microclimate stability: water, greenery.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Assignment of a project "Re-use of waste water in a single-family house". Input data for the building site: legal documents, maps, hydrological and, hydrogeological data, data from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.
  • 2. Calculation of the amount of waste water and rainwater, calculation of the demand for gray water, determination of the amount of water for irrigation.
  • 3. Design of waste water treatment technology, design of accumulation tank, possibilities of water utilization.
  • 4. Machinery for water use.
  • 5. Drawing: A technological scheme for the use of rain and waste water.
  • 6. Technical report
  • 7. Credit