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STUDY PLANS
2025/2026

Building Structures

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124KPKP ZK 4 3P Czech
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Department of Architectural Engineering
Synopsis:

Basics of building structures. Functional requirements, structural systems, spatial effect of the structural system. Vertical load-bearing structures, floor structures, overhanging structures. Envelopes of buildings, windows, partitions, floors, suspended ceilings. Stairs, roof construction timber roof trusses, roof envelopes. Foundation structures, structural solution of the substructure, waterproofing of the substructure. Structural systems of single and multi-storey buildings, structural systems of long-span structures.

Requirements:

No prerequisites.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Basic classification and development of building structures. Requirements for building structures.

2. Structural systems - final review.

3. Vertical structures - requirements and principles of structural design.

4. Vertical structures - material and technological variants of load-bearing walls, openings in load-bearing walls.

5. Horizontal structures - requirements, technological and construction principles.

6. Horizontal structures - material and technological variants. Overhanging structures.

7. Envelopes of buildings. Windows.

8. Partitions, floors, suspended ceilings.

9. Stairs - requirements, shape solutions, design principles, variants.

10. Roof construction, roof envelopes.

11. Foundation structures, substructure, waterproofing of the substructure.

12. Structural systems - final review II.

13. Structural systems long-span and high-rise buildings, superstructures.

Syllabus of tutorials:

The subject has no exercises.

Study Objective:

The student will acquire a basic orientation in terminology, in constructions of building structures, in technologies and the construction process of building structures.

Study materials:

? Hájek, P. a kol: Konstrukce pozemních staveb komplexní přehled, Skriptum ČVUT, 2011, s. 180

? Tywoniak, J. a kol.: Nízkoenergetické domy 3, nulové, pasivní a další, Grada, 2012, s. 204, ISBN 978-80-247-3832-1

? Růžička, M. Moderní dřevostavba, Grada, 2014, s. 160, ISBN 978-80-247-3298-5

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