Course Details
Construction Technology of Urban Roads
Academic Year 2025/26
NMA017 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-MI Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Czech national body of standards regarding asphalt pavements.
- 2. Pavement subgrade of urban roads – construction materials and soil subgrade classification system.
- 3. Pavement construction of urban roads – quality and control acceptance.
- 4. Bases courses – grounted courses, unbound courses, hydraulically bound courses.
- 5. Surface courses of urban roads – rigid pavements, flexible pavements, blocks of flats.
- 6. Hot mix asphalt paving – paving, rolling procedure, requirements.
- 7. Pavement drainage design of urban roads.
- 8. Pavement distress survey and typical distresses of urban roads.
- 9. Maintenance and rehabilitation methods for asphalt pavement.
- 10. The usage of recycled materials.
- 11. Road marking and its implementation.
- 12. Skid resistance characteristics.
- 13. Urban roads in the world.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Individual task dealing with earth work.
- 2. Consultation of earth work solutions.
- 3. Standardization and Quality control.
- 4. Individual task dealing with different technologies of base laeyrs.
- 5. Individual task dealing with hot mix technology.
- 6. Presentation of earth work and base courses tasks.
- 7. Presentation of hot mix technologies.
- 8. Excursion to road building company.