Course IC3102 · Year III · Autumn 2024-2025

Buildings

Compulsory course in Architecture and town planning, taught by Dorin Victor Popa.

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Overview

Lecturer
Dorin Victor Popa
Seminar tutor
Dorin Victor Popa
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Civil Engineering
Field of study
Architecture and town planning
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Presentation, discussions, examples, practical applications.
Entry requirements
To pass the subject ‘Technical Drawing and Infographics 1’.

Aims

To understand the functional and the constructive rules for buildings.

To understand the structure of building elements.

To understand the configuration rules for thermal and soundproofing and for the natural lighting of the building respectively.

Course contents

1. The general configuration of a building. The classification of buildings. Technical regulations. Building energy performance. The Romanian standards for building design. 2. Structures for residential building. Rules for drawing building axes in plane. Tolerances. 3. Building elements: walls. 4. Building elements: slabs. 5. Building elements: stairs. 6. Building elements: roofs. 7. Building elements: foundations and basements. Waterproof materials. 8. Finishing solutions for buildings. 9. Building physics. The interior comfort. 10. Building energy performance standards. Thermal transfer through the building’s envelope. 11. Building energy performance standards. Humidity transfer through the building’s envelope. Interior air quality. Ventilation. 12. Natural lighting of buildings. Buildings’ acoustics.

Learning outcomes

• Students will be able to use CAD software for technical drawings. • Students will be able to appreciate whether certain building elements comply with the energy performance standards. • Students will be able to appreciate whether the building elements were correctly executed in-situ

Assessment

Written exam (66% of final grade), design project of a residential building (44% of final grade).

Recommended reading

Construcţii Civile,
Popa, D,
Seria Didactica, Alba Iulia, 2004 · 140
CONSTRUCŢII CIVILE
Andreica, H.-A., Munteanu, C., Muresanu, I., Moga,
UT PRES,, Cluj-Napoca, 2009 · 570
Construcţii. Subansambluri constructive
Mirel, F.D
Universitatea Tehnica de Construcţii, Bucuresti, 2006 · 180