Course Details

Selected articles from Building Structures (R)

Academic Year 2025/26

NHB056 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIR Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miloš Kalousek, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295835

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Design of foundation structures in complex foundation conditions.
  • 2.-3. Vertical building envelope.
  • 4. Design of stairs with respect to modern materials and construction systems.
  • 5. Sloping roofs.
  • 6. Flat roofs.
  • 7. Hall buildings.
  • 8. Energy legislation, energy performance assessment of the building.
  • 9. Houses with near zero consumption, renewable energy sources.
  • 10. Ventilation, airtightness of building envelope.
  • 11. Sound insulation of building structures. Assessment of air and impact noise.
  • 12. Room acoustics, sound absorption. Reverberation time in the room.
  • 13. Shading diagram and insolation assessment. Daylighting of buildings, daylighting factor.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Foundation structures.
  • 2. Vertical building envelope and roofs.
  • 3. Stairs and hallways.
  • 4. Houses with near zero consumption, renewable energy sources.
  • 5. Ventilation, airtightness of building envelope.
  • 6. Sound insulation of building structures.
  • 7. Control of assigned tasks and credit.