Course detail

Modernization and reconstruction (E)

FAST-CH53Acad. year: 2011/2012

Considering the range of lectures, information is colleted into the synopsis that helps students to be well informed about the issues involved in the self-study. The aim of the course is to teach students basic knowledge of renovation and modernization of buildings. This course should improve students’s ability to find and analyse the right solution, and use it in a specific situation. Students should avoid frequent mistakes that can appear during designing of a building. Changes and modernization of old buildings are not connected only with the improvement of an indoor environment and functional utilization, but economical efficiency of the building operation is indiscerptible part of the reconstruction as well.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student must handle the aim of the course, which is to obtain elementary knowledge in the field of maintenance and modernization of housing stock, protection of historic buildings and appropriate technical regulations and standards following the newest known research results.

Prerequisites

The root expectation for studying the course is basic knowledge of the elementary building constructions according to the previous courses BH02, BH52, BH04 and BH06. Integral part of the supposed knowledge is an understanding of the civil materials properties and building physics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1. Explanation of the elementary terms, durability of the construction in general and after the reconstruction, value of a building and failures with respect to time.
2. Causes of the building decay: Failures of foundation structures – causes.
3. Failures of ceiling structures, vaults and roof trusses.
4. Structure adaptation influence to the durability of constructions. Town planning conception. Human factor influence to the value of a building. Terminology. Economic efficiency.
5. Ascertaining and evaluation of physical building conditions. Evaluation process of building constructions, tectonic investigation.
6. Fault classification from the gravity point of view - causes. Typical examples of faults.
7. Investigating methods of building physical condition and outcome processing. Methods - application field – examples of a practical application.
8. Reconstruction technologies. Foundation reconstruction (stabilization and enlargement). Strengthening of vertical load-bearing constructions. Ceiling structure reconstructions and the general requirements on the refurbished ceiling structure.
9. Moisture in building constructions. External appearances and effects. Causes elimination and moisture reduction in building materials.
10. Chimney modernization, reconstruction of the additional and non-bearing parts of a building.
11. Staircase reconstruction, lift constructions.
12. Building envelope faults - classification according to a location appearance.
13. Building envelope faults - examples in details – fault effects and their elimination.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To obtain elementary knowledge in the field of maintenance and modernization of housing stock, protection of historic buildings and appropriate technical regulations and standards following the newest known research results.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Landa: Rekonstrukce a opravy budov. SNTL, 1983. (CS)
Vlček,M., Puchýř,B.: Praktická příručka technických požadavků na výstavbu. Verlag Dashöfer, 2000. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer