Course detail
Building Elements 4
FA-PS4-KAcad. year: 2023/2024
The Building Elements course set deals with the structures of civil engineering structures that affect the function of the building work in its above and below ground parts. The course Building Elements 4 deals with fire safety, energy efficient houses, industrial halls and other specific buildings.
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Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The course is passed by successfully passing an oral examination consisting of a theoretical and practical (drawing) part.
Compulsory attendance at seminars with two excused absences, further absences can be replaced by agreement with the lecturer in another seminar or excused for particularly serious health reasons.
Lectures are optional.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the course guarantor, personal participation may be substituted with online participation in the lesson.
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Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
- compulsory prerequisite
Building Elements 1
Basic literature
DEPLAZES, Andrea, ed. Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures. a Handbook. Německo, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022.
Detail Engineering – series. Detail, 2011. ISBN: 978-3920034867.
Engineering Nature – Structures. Detail, 2021. ISBN: 978-3955535520.
HAUSER, Gerd. Timber Construction Manual. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2004. ISBN 3-7643-7025-4.
KIBERT, Charles J. Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery. Wiley, 2016. ISBN: 9781119055327.
KOOLHAAS, Rem. Elements of Architecture. Taschen, 2010. ISBN: 978-3836556149.
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
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Syllabus
- Fire safety in buildings
- Energy-saving buildings
- prerequisite, design, operation, maintenance
- types, construction and materials, construction quality verification
- shading – a means of optimizing the internal environment of buildings
- transparent energy climate facades
- Industrial halls - terminology, structural systems, material variants
- Groundwater and construction works
- terminology, solutions, materials, details of waterproof systems
- buildings covered with soil, objects of technical infrastructure - design principles, materials, examples
- designing constructions and buildings imposed to damp and wet conditions