Course Details

Modernization and Reconstruction

Academic Year 2025/26

NHB058 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIE Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 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/295770

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the subject, terminology, durability and life-span of buildings.
  • 2. Surveying of existing state in buildings.
  • 3. Fundamental surveys in buildings – technical survey, historical and architectural survey (preliminary consideration of building defects and deficiencies – visual exploration), Development of building industry law in Bohemia and Moravia since the second half of the 19th century.
  • 4. Design regulations for the project documentation of building reconstruction and renovation.
  • 5. Cracks in building constructions – characteristics of cracks (active and passive crack defects, tension, compression or shear cracks , etc.) causes of cracks in building constructions and ways their rehabilitation.
  • 6. Defects of vertical structures (columns, load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, partitions) and their rehabilitations.
  • 7. Openings in vertical structures, supports and bracing for rehabilitation processes.
  • 8. Defects of horizontal constructions – the first part (lintels, girders, floor structures, wooden beam floor. structures) and ways of their rehabilitation.
  • 9. Defects of horizontal constructions – the second part (vaults, floor constructions) – types, defects, rehabilitation.
  • 10. Staircases – main defects and failures, repair possibilities.
  • 11. Foundation structures – failures, ways of rehabilitation, enlargement of width and depth of existing foundations.
  • 12. Defects and failures of saddle roofs – causes, rehabilitation, attic extensions and superstructures.
  • 13. Summary.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Preparation of the building subject a suitable for reconstruction.
  • 2. Individual entering of the building reconstruction the given object.
  • 3. Final consultation and elaboration submission to the credit.