Course Details
Technology of Constructions 1
Academic Year 2024/25
BWA002 course is part of 4 study plans
BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 3rd year
BPC-MI Summer Semester 3rd year
BKC-SI Summer Semester 3rd year
BPA-SI Summer Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
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
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction to the scientific field of the technology of constructions. Analysis of building processes, process design.
2. Earthwork processes. Staking out a building, methods and procedures for the execution of earthwork. Construction machinery used in earthwork.
3. Foundation construction processes. Technical principles and procedures for the execution of shallow and deep foundations.
4. Concrete structure formwork – element, system and special. Principles of design and execution.
5. Processes used in the reinforcement of reinforced concrete structures. Preparation of reinforcement, production lines. Principles of laying reinforcement into formwork.
6. Concrete mixing processes. Production, haulage, placement, processing and treatment of fresh concrete. Monitoring of setting and hardening, principles of formwork removal. Technical breaks.
7. Masonry processes. Principles of the execution of walling from bricks, shaped bricks and stone. Module, technology and quality requirements.
8. Assembly of timber structures and buildings. Execution of classical and new-style trusses.
9. Timber buildings, principles of production and assembly. Quality requirements.
10. Erection of enclosing shells and roof claddings. Principles and procedures for the assembly.
11. Installation of small unit roof coverings.
12. Execution of metalwork, incl. metal coverings. Fixing and joining, quality requirements.
13. Working and protective scaffoldings. Types, classification. Working procedures and principles for the assembly of scaffolding.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1.- 2. Earthworks, measurements and demarcation of structures, procedures for earthwork execution, management of excavation work, time schedule.
3. Graphical representation of the earthwork processes, selection of machinery for earthworks, techniques used in working with selected machines, scheme for the movement of machinery on the construction site.
4.- 5. Formwork, reinforcement and concreting of monolithic reinforced concrete structures. Design of formwork systems for monolithic structures, installation process. Listing of elements, drafting of parts of wall and ceiling formwork, formwork details.
6. Procedure for executing the concreting of a monolithic structure, selection of suitable machinery, time schedule, scheme for the transportation of concrete mixture and its placement in formwork.
7. Wall construction. Creation of comprehensive technical documentation for the execution of an assigned brick structure, including calculations and a list of necessary materials.
8. Procedure for the execution of wall construction for one storey of a studied structure. Machinery, devices and tools used in wall construction.
9. Time schedule for the construction of walls for one storey of a structure, graphical representation of the wall construction process for one storey.
10-12. Alternatively (always in the form of technological regulation):
Assembly of wooden structures – execution of roof trusses or wooden buildings.
Construction of enclosing shells or roof cladding. Installation of small unit roof coverings.
Performance of metalworking on roofs, including sheet metal roof coverings.
13. Assessment of completed assignments, defence of proposed solutions, credit.