Course Details

Construction Machines

Academic Year 2025/26

BWB009 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Motyčka, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management

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/289903

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the subject. Mechanisation of construction work, basic structural elements.
  • 2. Presentation of the relationships between the work done by construction machines from the point of view of technical procedures.
  • 3. Production and conveyance of energy.
  • 4. Groundwork and work with rocks.
  • 5. Production, transportation and processing of fresh concrete.
  • 6. Vertical transportation and handling.
  • 7. Horizontal transportation and handling.
  • 8. Finishing work.
  • 9. Utility and transportation infrastructure.
  • 10. Demolition, recycling.
  • 11. Harvesting and processing of wood, safety at work, ecology.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1:Acquainting students with the subject and requirements. Individual assignment of machin
  • 2:Assignment of task 1 – Dozers performance, consultations.
  • 3:Assignment of task 2 – Loaders performance, consultations.
  • 4:Assignment of task 3 – Excavators performance, consultations.
  • 5:Assignment of task 4 – Machinery set design for earthworks, consultations.
  • 6:Excursion – Machines for earthworks.
  • 7:Assignment of task 5 – Machinery set design for removal of materials, consultations.
  • 8:Consultations.
  • 9:Excursion – Machines for vertical transfer
  • 10:Final consultation of machine set design for the assigned technological stage.
  • 11:Test, submission of assignments.