The thesis is concerned with the theme of energy savings in the Building industry. It describes passive house development in detail with a focus on the construction part of buildings with low energy consumption. At first, there is an overview of the actual situation concerning the new European Union’s restrictions and a basic classification of energy efficient buildings is introduced. Further, construction compositions in two energy standards are designed for a few selected construction systems suitable for a passive house. They are evaluated from different points of view and compared to each other. Finally, an estimate of the passive house value is given as well as return of extra investments with regards to energy price increase. Key words The thesis is concerned with the theme of energy savings in the Building industry. It describes passive house development in detail with a focus on the construction part of buildings with low energy consumption. At first, there is an overview of the actual situation concerning the new European Union’s restrictions and a basic classification of energy efficient buildings is introduced. Further, construction compositions in two energy standards are designed for a few selected construction systems suitable for a passive house. They are evaluated from different points of view and compared to each other. Finally, an estimate of the passive house value is given as well as return of extra investments with regards to energy price increase. Key words The thesis is concerned with the theme of energy savings in the Building industry. It describes passive house development in detail with a focus on the construction part of buildings with low energy consumption. At first, there is an overview of the actual situation concerning the new European Union’s restrictions and a basic classification of energy efficient buildings is introduced. Further, construction compositions in two energy standards are designed for a few selected construction systems suitable for a passive house. They are evaluated from different points of view and compared to each other. Finally, an estimate of the passive house value is given as well as return of extra investments with regards to energy price increase.

The fluctuations in the demand for construction work have often resulted in skills shortages. This has led to the need for effective construction labour market planning strategies, which enable the construction industry to meet its skills requirements, particularly in periods of peak demand. Existing approaches to construction labour market planning have several limitations. They do not shed light on the socio-economic and spatially influenced issues within which the industry's skills shortages are rooted. There is, therefore, a need for more appropriate decision-support mechanisms that can take account of spatial problems in terms of skills demand and supply influences. Through industry involvement, this research has explored how GIS can enhance the labour market planning process in construction. The research briefly reviews the nature of labour market planning in construction, introduces geographic information systems, and highlights the opportunities they offer for overcoming the limitations of existing approaches. The implementation of the GIS-based system and its application to a specific labour market planning initiative is then presented. The evaluation of the system by prospective end-users reveals the enablers, barriers and benefits of the system implementation. Organisational issues that had a bearing on the implementation are also examined and recommendations made for further research.

To explore the potential of packaging design structures in menswear. While packaging design and fashion design are two distinctively different fields,their methodologies are distinctively similar.To compare packaging and garment design is therefore to compare their development process and purpose in terms of structure, material, color and print, as well as aspects concerning production and marketing. Both fields aim to create designs that are functional as well as aesthetically pleasing within their particular context; the fundamental contextual difference being that packaging is conceived for a product and garments conceived for a body. Focusing on structure, both packaging and fashion design may use product templates to facilitate mass production. In fashion design these templates are called construction patterns; in packaging design templates are called packaging nets or development nets. Both construction patterns and packaging nets are 2-d structures that gain a three dimensional form according to a construction system, e.g. constructing a box from a flat element using folding techniques. For this bachelor degree work the aim is to explore the potential of packaging design structures in menswear. The result is a lineup of outfits generated by the adoption of packaging nets as construction patterns for garments. Since the outfits are created using packaging design principles and methods, they challenge the contextual distinction both between garment and packaging, and between body and product. By considering garments as packaging for the body, the collection blurs the line between fashion design and packaging design. I believe that the intersection of these two branches of design allows us not only to discover new forms of expression and construction, but also to gain a new perspective on fashion design practice. In addition to structural properties, by also considering the graphic aspect of packaging design, this collection highlights the importance of product differentiation and thus serves as a starting point for future fashion experiments with product branding. / Program: Fashion Design

Folkhem is a Swedish company exclusively building timber residential buildings in the Stockholm area. The company is currently in the planning stages of what would be the world’s tallest timber building, a 22-storey timber residential buiding in Hallonbergen, Sundbyberg. In this master thesis, this proposed building has been analyzed with regards to its wind-induced dynamic response. The work includes studies of stabilization of tall structures, case studies of existing buildings and developed systems for tall timber construction and analyzed options for structural design of the Hallonbergen project. Eleven different structural systems have been investigated with regards to their displacement at the top and their peak acceleration when subject to wind loading. The peak acceleration has been calculated using both Eurocode and ISO 4354. The values have been assessed against ISO 6897 and ISO 10137. The results indicate that it is possible to construct the Hallonbergen project without risk of unacceptable dynamic response, using any of the following options; The Martinson’s system with 259 mm CLT plates The Kauffmann system The structural system presented in “The Case for Tall Wood Buildings” The structural system presented in “The Timber Tower Research Project”

This work aims to analyze a building system that utilizes alternative material and residues of tire rubber in community housing. Primarily, this work shows a review of literature concerning housing, debit, environment, habitation projects in Brazil and recycling of used tires. Definitions, classification, types, models of technology and factors involving pré-fabricated comunits houses are also presented. In addition, characteristics of the Sistema Construtivo Bom-Plac are shown with detailed information of materials employed. Subsequently, measurements, probes and tests using concrete pre-cast slabs which with tire rubber are analyzed concerning moisture content, density, compressive strength and chemical analysis of the tire rubber. A better compressive strength reaching 14,38 MPa level was observed for mixture composition 1:2:0.5:2 (cement CP-V, sand, rubber and gravel number 1). To make sure that no heavy metals are released in the environment according to NBR 10006 of ABNT technical regulations chemical analysis were performed. Chemical analyses included tests evaluating water effect, solvability, pH, scanning electron microscopy, microbiology and water uses with and without sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH). A brief report with experiences by the author are presented including the pré-fabricated type, habitation type, multi-functional septic tank and drainage are included in this thesis. / Este trabalho objetiva analisar um sistema construtivo com material alternativo, resíduos de borracha de pneus, em habitações de interesse social. A revisão bibliográfica apresenta pesquisa sobre habitação, déficit, meio ambiente, projetos habitacionais no Brasil, pneus e estudos do Sistema Construtivo Bom-Plac, compreendendo definições, classificações, tipologias, modelos de tecnologias, fatores intervenientes na construção civil. São apresentadas as características do Sistema Construtivo BOM-PLAC, com descrição dos materiais e componentes. São realizados medições, ensaios e testes utilizando-se corpos-de-prova de concreto com incorporação de resíduo de borracha, avaliando-se a umidade, massa unitária, granulometria, resistência à compressão e análise química do resíduo de borracha. O traço 1:2:0,5:2 (cimento CP-V, areia, borracha e brita nº 1) resultou em uma maior resistência média à compressão atingindo 14,38 MPa. A análise química, compreendendo os ensaios de lixiviação, solubilização, ph, microscopia eletrônica de varredura, difratômetro de raio-X, teste microbiológico e os ensaios com soluções de ácido sulfúrico (H2SO4) e soda cáustica (NaOH), mostraram que não há liberações de metais pesados para o meio ambiente, conforme a NBR 10006 da ABNT. Apresenta-se também um breve relato sobre experiências desenvolvidas pelo autor, propondo tipologia para placa, tipologia habitacional, fossa séptica multifuncional e sumidouro.

The subject of the diploma thesis is a new building of the P3 fire station in Hlučín. The facility will be used to perform the fire protection service of the population of the district fire brigade and municipal volunteer fire fighters. The fire station is designed as an isolated structure of rectangular shape, which is divided into three parts, and it is operationally and structurally interconnected. First part is partly underground two-storey administrative. The second part of the building is an exit garage and the third part forms of the technical background of the fire station. The object is designed as classic brick technology from Porotherm ceramic blocks on reinforced concrete base strips. The roof of part of fire and garage facilities is saddle, the roof of the technical background is flat.

The theme of my diploma thesis is processing of project documentation for building a construction of nursery school in Kunštát. Health centre was also designed as a part of the building facility. The capacity of the building are two classrooms in nursery school and two outpatient units. The building is a two-storey building which has basement partly under it. The construction system is bricked from aerated concrete blocks with a ceiling structure made of reinforced concrete prestressed ceiling panels. The perimeter masonry is insulated with an ETICS thermal insulation composite system with mineral wool thermal insulation. The predominant part of the roof of the building is a vegetation extension flat roof.

The subject of the final thesis is creation of project documentation for construction of a mixed-use building. The main services of this building are housing, offices and small markets. The building is four-storey with a partial basement. The building is founded on strip foundations, load-bearing structures are made of concrete system Velox. The mixed-use building has roofing made like a flat green roof. The building is situated on parcel number 366/1 in city Letovice, cadastre unit Letovice (680711).

The project designs the new building of football club with one unit on the second floor and gym that is open to the public. The building has a flat roof. It is designed as a wall construction system with a contact thermal – insulation system. The project will also include the parking and pavements.

The diploma thesis focuses on a mixed-use building with a rectangle-shaped ground plan in Žilina city. The object is four-storey and with no basement. It is split into two sections. The first one provides a space for three operations in northeastern part of the first floor with an attached parking lot. These operations are not further described in this project and depending on investor´s requirements some changes may apply. The second part is an apartment housing section. The first floor contains utility rooms such as storage and buggy room. The housing sections are accessible with two entrances. The apartments are located from the second up to the fourth storey and are designed 1+KK, 2+KK,3+KK and 4+KK respectively. The apartments are assigned with parking spaces isolated from operations parking lot. Vertical bearing walls are made of clay blocks POROTHERM 30 AKU P+D, which are used also as internal bearing party. Internal bearing walls placed in apartments are made POROTHERM 25 AKU P+D and completed by POROTHERM 14 PROFI P+D. Walls will be placed on conrete and reinforced concrete strip foundation. Building has external thermal insulation made by EPS gray 200mm thick. Horizontal load-bearing structures are made by reinforced concrete. Object has flat roof with minimum slope 3%. Damp proof is made by PVC-P membrane. As thermal insulation is used mineral wool.