Course Details
Construction Machines (R)
Academic Year 2024/25
NWA022-A course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIR Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
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
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.