Course Details

Selected Chapters from Building Constructions 1

Academic Year 2025/26

NHB047 course is part of 3 study plans

​ NPA-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

​ NKC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Karel Šuhajda, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

5 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/289564

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Compositions of double and tripleroofs, safety waterproofing materials (micro-perforated, micro-porous and monolithic).
  • 2. Thermal insulations of pitched roofs including materials based on thermal radiation reflectivity.
  • 3. Roofing of sheet metal (smooth, sinuous, simulative roofing tiles), plastic, bitumen, stone, wood (boards, shingles), thatch, solar and exotic.
  • 4. Pitched roof designing in mountain regions (securing of pitches roofs against snow slide and upward wind lift). Green pitched roofs.
  • 5. Waterproof layers of flat roofs by bituminous felts (bitumen, bearing infill, surface finish) and their use.
  • 6. Waterproof layers of flat roofs by plastic foils (thermoplastic, elastomer, thermoplastic-elastomer) their use and laying technology. Solar foils. Spread waterproof layer.
  • 7. Ways of flat roof stabilization against the upward wind lift (sticking, stabilization layers, mechanical anchoring).
  • 8. Roof terraces and traffic roofs (parking lots, heliports). Design principles, details.
  • 9. Green roofs. Types of vegetation, design principles, details.
  • 10. Reconstructions of flat roofs.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Specifying of the flat roof - dewatering the study-plan 1:200.
  • 2.–3. Ground plan and cut single skin flat roof 1:50.
  • 4.–5. Two variants compositions single skin flat-roof material specifications.
  • 6.–7. Details at 1:10 the attic, roof drain, dilation, various compositions.
  • 8. Drainage and composition of roof double-shell.
  • 9. Practical demonstration of implementation of waterproofing layers of flat roofs.
  • 10. Two variants of double-shell roof compositions of various trims.