Course Details
Saving and Building Adaptation
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
4 credits
Semester
winter
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. Basic theoretical knowledge of saving technics of building. Causes rising damp of building objects.
2. Humidity transfer in building construction. Humidity measurement methods of building construction.
3. Humidity survey of building objects. Project documentation for saving moisture masonry.
4. Modern mechanical savings methods.
5. Infusion curtain method for saving masonry. Electro-physical methods of saving moisture masonry.
6. Saving methods based on flowing air, saving coat. Methods of bulding measures.
7. Problems with plinth adjustment.
8. Protection of reconstruction objects against radon infiltration.
9. Partition reconstruction. Ceiling reconstruction.
10. Chimney renovation and reconstruction.
11. Adittional anchorage of building construction.
12. Reconstruction of flat roof.
13. Building objects protection against biological factors.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. The assignment of the semester work, selection of the existing object.
2. Focus on the current state.
3.–4. Construction-technical and building-historical survey of the building.
5.–6. Proposal for new use of the object.
7. Suggestion of faults and defects.
8. Moisture rehabilitation project, incl. technological regulation.
9. The project to rehabilitate other faults in the building.
10.–11. Thermal insulation design including calculation.