Course Details

Construction Machines (R)

Academic Year 2025/26

NWA022-A course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIR Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Motyčka, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management

Language of instruction

English

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

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/295821

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the subject. Basic information about the mechanization of construction work, construction machines and technical procedures.
  • 2. Construction machines employed in work performed according to the main technical stages of building execution.
  • 3. Acquaintance with machines and equipment for the production of building materials.
  • 4. Special construction machines and equipment for the execution, repairs and the reconstruction of buildings.
  • 5. Special construction machines for the execution, repairs and the reconstruction of civil engineering works.
  • 6. Remote control of construction machines and equipment.
  • 7. Machines and equipment for landfilling, recultivation and recycling.
  • 8. Regulations, standards and ordinances applicable for work with construction machines.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the course and the requirements for its successful completion. Seminar paper – individual assignment – an investment plan for the acquisition of machines to perform work during a selected technical stage of the construction process.
  • 2. Consultation regarding the individual assignment.
  • 3. Assignment of exercise No. 1. Proposal of a machine assembly for the strucutre with varying usage of mobile and tower cranes.
  • 4. Consultation regarding exercise No. 1.
  • 5. Excursion to a building materials production plant.
  • 6. Submission of exercise No. 1, consultation regarding the seminar paper.
  • 7. Presentation of seminar paper – individual assignments.
  • 8. Presentation of seminar paper, final test.