Course detail

Selected articles from Building Structures (R)

FAST-CH10Acad. year: 2024/2025

The content of subject is envelope and constructions of buildings – external walls and roof constructions, their material and constructional variants – classical and modern options. Relating themes are external plumbing and roofing, placing and fixing of components in window and door openings.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Entry knowledge

Technical terminology, basic requirements to various types of building (functional, structural and architectural), basic knowledge about constructional systems, competence to choice of system commensurate with type of building, spatial stiffness provision of constructional system. Drawing knowledge of basic constructional types, competence of building drawings reading.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

A design of the clear and specific flat or pitched roof above various thermal and moisture internal environment. Waterproof layer design of substructures. Knowledge of the detailed design and material design of terraces, roof parking lots, heliports and green roofs. The issue of details. A basic overview of the structural and building physics principles.
Knowledge od the design of the clear and specific flat or pitched roof above various thermal and moisture internal environment. Waterproof layer design of substructures. Ability of the detailed design and material design of terraces, roof parking lots and green roofs.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Oláh: Konštrukcie plochých striech. JAGA Bratislava, 1997. ISBN: 8096767631. (SK)
Fajkoš, Novotný: Střechy Základní konstrukce. GRADA, 2003. ISBN: 80-86445-08-9. (CS)
ČSN 730540. 2005. (CS)

Recommended literature

Pozemní stavitelství III. (CS)

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Constructions of building envelopes – terminology, functions, boundary climatic conditions of design, fundamental design principles. Peripheral wall envelopes – single-leaf and double structures. 2. Peripheral wall envelopes – design and structural principles, material variations of single-leaf homogeneous structures. Variations of thermal insulation positioning, Technological. Placing and fixing of components in window and door openings. 3. Principles of a solution of multi-layer wall structures with an external insulation layer. Materials and technological applications of external insulation layers (anchoring, sticking). 4. Waterproof layers of building substructures, kinds of hydro-physical loads. 5. Design principles of flat and line draining buildings. 6. Design principles of waterproofing for separate types of hydro-physical loads including control and reconstructive systems, pipe and reinforcement penetration by pressure water. 7. Roof constructions of building – classification and types of roofs, main structural components, drainage systems. Pitched timber roof constructions. 8. Modern roof trusses – collar beam trusses and rafter systems. Compositions of double and triple-skin pitched roofs. 9. Safety waterproofing materials. Thermal insulations of pitched roofs including materials based on thermal radiation reflectivity. Basic types of roofing. 10. Flat could roofs (double ventilated roofs) – design principles of the flat roof constructions and compositions, material variations, flat roof drainage layouts and components. 11. Flat warm roofs (single roofs) – design principles of the flat roof constructions and compositions, material variations, flat roof drainage layouts and components. 12. Material variants of individual layers of warm roofs (single flat roofs), structural types and compositions of flat roofs. Converted flat roofs. Roofing types and external plumbing. 13. Ways of flat roof stabilization against the upward wind lift. Roof terraces and traffic roofs (parking lots, heliports). Design principles, details.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Syllabus

1.Designing a sloped roofs in mountain areas (anti-landslide of snow and windy lift). Green pitched roofs 2.Waterproof layers of flat roofs (sloping roofs) of bitumen strips (bitumen, bearing inserts, surface treatment), their use and application. 3.Waterproofing of flat roofs (sloping roofs) of of plastic foil (thermoplastics, elastomers, thermoplastic elastomers), their applications and use. Solar foil. Waterproofing of screed. 4.Methods of stabilization of flat roofs against windy buoyancy (bonding, stabilizing layer, mechanical anchoring). 5.Roof terraces and roofs (parking lots, heliports). Design principles, details. 6.Green roof. Types of vegetation, design and details. 7.Redevelopment of flat roofs.