Professional Focus

  • Technology of traditional binders (cement, lime, plaster)
  • Production and use of traditional building materials (concrete, mortar, ceramics)
  • Modern building materials and processes (lightweight building materials, polymers, geopolymers, high-performance cement composites)
  • Repair and protection of concrete, masonry and wooden structures
  • Life cycle of materials (LCA/EPD, optimal use of building materials in construction, maintenance, recycling, reuse)
  • Replacement of primary non-renewable raw materials with waste, alternative and easily renewable raw materials
  • Insulating materials for energy efficiency of buildings (classic, natural, super insulating)
  • Research and development of materials with a reduced carbon footprint
  • Economic aspects of production and use of building materials in structures
  • BIM from the point of view of building materials and components
  • Automation and robotization in the production and construction of building structures from the point of view of building materials
  • Expertise in the specialization of products for construction – microstructure of silicate materials and properties of prefabricated elements

The Institute participates in the teaching of the subject Testing and Technology in the 2nd year and provides teaching of the subjects Mining and Processing of Raw Materials, Mortars I – Theoretical Basis of Silicate Structure, Mortars I – Computational Basis of Silicate Structure. Furthermore, the Institute of Building Materials and Components Technology provides teaching in the specialisation “Building Materials and Technologies” in Bachelor and Master courses: Fundamentals of Technological Processes, Mortars II and III, Concrete Technology I, II and III, Concrete Technology – Laboratories, Ceramics, Ceramics – Laboratories, Technology of Building Components, Physics of Building Materials, Insulating Materials, Metal and Wood Materials, Lightweight Building Materials, Technical Thermodynamics, Technology of Prefabricated Buildings, Special Insulation, Special Ceramics, Properties and Uses of Building Materials in Structures, Selected Papers in Building Materials Technology, Undergraduate Seminar, Applied Software, Composite Materials, Laboratory Experimental Methods, Plastics, Laboratory Testing of Building Materials and Components, Plant Organization and Management, Durability of Building Materials, Ecology in Construction, Optimizing the Use of Building Materials, Real Estate Valuation, Remediation Technology, Glassmaking, Process Engineering, Theoretical Basis of Special Building Materials, Diploma Seminar and also the course Durability of Building Materials in the Master’s Degree in Construction Implementation.

These courses form a comprehensive basis of knowledge of building materials technology up to the use in structures. Graduates of the specialization “Building Materials and Technologies” thus have all the relevant knowledge profiling a civil engineer, they get a comprehensive overview of building structures, classic and the latest building materials and their applications in construction, they also receive the necessary economic education and thanks to the universal knowledge they have the prerequisites to apply in a wide range of construction activities, in large companies and private business.

Furthermore, the Department of Building Materials and Components Technology provides the following subjects within the framework of doctoral studies: theoretical foundations of silicate technology, theory of durability and rehabilitation of concrete, theoretical foundations of composite materials, theory of optimal use of building materials, microstructure of building materials, theoretical foundations of burnt building materials, environmental systems of production and use of building materials, rheology of concrete and doctoral seminar I. – VII.