Course detail

Failures and Reconstruction

FAST-BHB013Acad. year: 2025/2026

It deals mainly about the focus of the present state of the buildings, the construction- technical and historic research, identification of failures by the external symptoms and basic methods for their removal. The subject deals with the creation of the drawing documentation of reconstructed buildings. Students will learn about the development of building industry laws in Bohemia and Moravia and about building construction systems and principles at of standards and design regulations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Partition, drawing and designing of building constructions, concrete and masonry constructions, metal and wooden constructions, building equipment, building technology and control.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Theoretical and practical experience with geodesic surveying of an existing state of an object, performing of brief technical investigations, identification of defects and failures of building constructions according to extrinsic characteristics, projecting of redevelopment of principal defects and failures.
Student must handle the aim of the course, which is the acquisition of theoretical and practical experience with geodesic surveying of an existing state of an object, performing of brief technical investigations, identification of defects and failures of building constructions according to extrinsic characteristics, projecting of redevelopment of principal defects and failures.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Chudly Roy: Constrution Technology, Logman, London, 1987 (EN)
Montague, Peter and Taylor, Roy: Structural Engineering, McGraw Hill Book Company, London, 1989 (EN)
Vlček a kol.: Poruchy a rekonstrukce staveb, ERA, 2002 (CS)
Vlček a kol.: Poruchy a rekonstrukce v pozemních stavbách II, CERM, 1996 (CS)
Vlček a kol.: Projektování rekonstrukcí, CERM, 1996 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPA-SI Bachelor's 4 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPC-SI Bachelor's

    specialization S , 4 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme BKC-SI Bachelor's 4 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 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.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miloslav Novotný, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1. Preparation of the building subject a suitable for reconstruction.
  • 2. Building-technical and building-historical research of the building.
  • 3.-4. Taking measure and drawing current state of the object.
  • 5.-6. Individual entering of the building reconstruction the given object.
  • 7.-10. Design and drawing of adaptation or modernisation object.
  • 11. Final consultation and elaboration submission to the credit.