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1. Introduction to the subject, terminology, durability and life-span of buildings. 2. Surveying of existing state in buildings. 3. Fundamental surveys in buildings – technical survey, historical and architectural survey (preliminary consideration of building defects and deficiencies – visual exploration), Development of building industry law in Bohemia and Moravia since the second half of the 19th century. 4. Design regulations for the project documentation of building reconstruction and renovation . 5. Cracks in building constructions – characteristics of cracks (active and passive crack defects, tension, compression or shear cracks , etc.) causes of cracks in building constructions and ways their rehabilitation. 6. Defects of vertical structures (columns, load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, partitions) and their rehabilitations. 7. Openings in vertical structures, supports and bracing for rehabilitation processes. 8. Defects of horizontal constructions - the first part (lintels, girders, floor structures, wooden beam floor structures) and ways of their rehabilitation. Defects of horizontal constructions - the second part (vaults, floor constructions) – types, defects, rehabilitation. 9. Staircases – main defects and failures, repair possibilities. Foundation structures – failures, ways of rehabilitation, enlargement of width and depth of existing foundations. 10. Defects and failures of saddle roofs – causes, rehabilitation, attic extensions and superstructures. 11. Summary.