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Ecology in the Building Industry
FAST-BJA024Acad. year: 2023/2024
Ecosystem, biosphere, lithosphere, pedosphere, hydrosphere, biochemical cycle.
Atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere pollution combustion gases, waste water. Toxicology, determination of toxicity, survey of toxic substances and their possible sources. Biological needs of humans, environmental comfort, physical effects, harmlessness of building materials, radon and its sources.
Classification of technologies from the point of view of waste formation, classification of wastes, composition of wastes, radioactivity. Recycling, stabilization and solidification possibilities of wastes. Laws and decrees concerning the environment and handling of wastes, introduction of EU regulations. Storing of wastes, technological parts of deposit areas, types of storage sites, rehabilitation. Thermal treatment of wastes, municipal refuses incinerating plant, incinerating plants for other and toxic wastes, securing the protection of environment during incineration. Other methods of thermal treatment.
Wastes utilized in the building industry, their classification and characteristics of individual groups.
Energetic wastes, chemical and phase composition, pozzuolanic activity, possibility of wastes utilization in the building industry. Wastes from metallurgical production, chemical and phase composition, reactivity, possibility of these wastes utilization in the building industry. Wastes from building industry and the possibility of their utilization.
Waste water, purification, sludge and its destruction. Economical aspects of wastes managing, utilization of wastes as secondary raw materials, penalties for environment pollution.
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The student would manage the goal of the subject by acquiring knowledge on basic principles connected with ecology about related legal regulations, methods of waste processing produced in civil engineering and other industrial branches in civil engineering, on waste composition, on waste toxicity, on thermal waste processing and on basic principles of waste storage.
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Basic literature
PYTLÍK, Petr Ekologie ve stavebnictví. SPS Praha, 1997. ISBN 80-85380-38-2. (CS)
ROVNANÍKOVÁ, Pavla a Nikol ŽIŽKOVÁ Ekologie ve stavebnictví. FAST, VUT v Brně, studijní opora, 2010. (CS)
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- Programme BPC-MI Bachelor's 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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