Course Details

Sustainable Building

Academic Year 2025/26

NHB046 course is part of 4 study plans

​ NPA-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year

​ NKC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Milan Ostrý, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289563

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Literature, basic concepts, legislation, the concept of sustainable development and sustainable construction.
  • 2. Agenda 21, the context and scope, the objectives of Agenda 21 for sustainable building.
  • 3. The principle of multi-criteria assessment of buildings.
  • 4.–5. Multi-criteria assessment of buildings by use the methodology SBToolCZ.
  • 6. The life cycle of the product, life cycle assessment.
  • 7. Environmental labeling, eco-design.
  • 8. Ecology in building, industrial wastes utilized in the construction, recycling means, recycled materials properties and their applications in building construction.
  • 9. Environmental criteria for the selection of building materials, alternative materials and construction design based on renewable resources and recycled materials, overview, basic physical properties.
  • 10. Thermal stability of the rooms and the use of passive cooling in buildings civil engineering.
  • 11. Energy performance of buildings, ways to reduce energy consumption, low-energy and passive houses, design principles and examples.
  • 12. Energy sources and their impact on the environment, alternative energy, solar energy, wind, biomass, heat pumps.
  • 13. Disabled use of buildings – requirements and examples.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Conditions for obtaining credits, semester work task.
  • 2. Multi-criteria assessment by SBToolCZ methodology – Criteria E.
  • 3. Multi-criteria assessment by SBToolCZ methodology – Criteria E.
  • 4. Multi-criteria assessment by SBToolCZ methodology – Criteria S.
  • 5. Multi-criteria assessment by SBToolCZ methodology – Criteria C.
  • 6. Multi-criteria assessment by SBToolCZ methodology – Criteria L.
  • 7. Credit.