Almost one third of the people in the Czech Rep. live in panel buildings, 30% of which have already been renovated. However, almost no reconstruction project has used the great potential to change the buildings into modern housing with the highest comfort of the 21st century, i.e. to turn them into passive buildings. The main saving measures are solving the change of air, quality windows and doors, insulation with sufficient emphasis on the relationship without thermal bridges. In order to illustrate the importance of thermal bridges we have randomly selected a five-section block of flats. It is only a reference example of the documenting processes in place, in which minor changes are a majority, and this is not, by far, the worst representative...

The topic of this paper is limited to industrial floors, more specifically, floors in underground spaces, which are used as parking areas in residential or office buildings. The question is whether this division is still valid, but that is not essential for the issues addressed in this paper. Of course, all these questions will need to be addressed with both the construction companies and the suppliers of materials. I would be also useful to also know the opinion of designers. The purpose of my paper is, therefore, to generate debate about these topics and allow for further improvement of CSN 74 4505 and, eventually, to create special technical conditions.

The article informs about the revision of the Czech technical standard ČSN 73 3251design of structures of stone. The original was published in 1987 and it is not up to date any more with the changes that have taken place in the systems of production and trade of buildings products and the technical progress. The revised standard will include the currently proven technical solutions for stone structures, including stone tiles on pavements.

This method has been known in Germany since 1930. Since then it has through many changes and technological advances. The use of hot air units continued to be developed and, after 1950, heat oil started to be used as fuel, and it is still used to this day. However, the use of hot air to eradicate wood-destroying insects makes sense only when there is an active infestation. A straightforward evidence of active infestation are the occurrence of larvae or beetles when carving wooden profiles. Other evidences can also be crunching sounds, fresh sawdust or paths of lighter colour. However, even if none of this has been detected, it doesn't necessary mean that the wood isn't infested. It should also be noticed that falling sawdust can also occur even after a successful “thermo sanitation”.

The paper results about the possibilities of microwave radiation efficiency used for the disposal of biological agents causing corrosion of building materiále. The drying process used on the building structures with use of microwave radiation is fast and effective Metod applied on drying procedure of building structures. Microwave radiation causes an inelastic oscillation of polar molecules of water, which inflict rapid heating of the molecules and also decrease the amount of free water. The idea of the drying process will be used on a disposal of biological agents which causes a corrosion of building materials. On behalf of material damage the biological agents (mainly the fungi) causes also the pollution of interior climate. The spats of fungi are evaporated along the infected area and inhaled by people. This experiments can cause a serious damage to men’s health. The evaluation of the disposal of negative agents will be held in this project. This should be a key feature for improving a quality of interior climate in affected areas.

The presented article describes the basic introduction into building automation systems. The overview of main standards and protocol used in building automation systems are described in detail.

This article is referring to former article called Examination of building underground of block of flats in light of civil heat engineering [3]. It extend previous article by other variants of detail of giving thermal insulation on foundation constructions and basement parts from exterior of building. This article concentrates on solving of these others details of building underground. The type of this block of flats is the system BP-70. This article deals with differences of continuance of temperatures and water vapour pressures on various types of the foundation and basement part of a building with thermal isolation too.

The term shell construction does not have any legislative anchor. It is a concept originated from habit, which is commonly used both in construction theory and in practice. It comes from the time when the economy was centrally planned and construction activities were divided into main building production and secondary building production. The works for the shell construction were included in the former – foundations, vertical and horizontal load bearing structures and supporting elements of the room (roof trusses or truss system).

In relation with the transition to European standards, as of March 2010 the standard CSN 73 00 35 Loading of structures becomes valid for the group of standards EN 1990 Basis of design, strength and durability and EN 1991 Actions on structures, constant, variable, extraordinary. The Czech versions of these documents are have been available since 2004-2008. The amendment in the map of snowy regions was received with a relatively high awareness. This amendment resulted in the appendixes CSN 73 0035 and BS EN 1991-1-3 Actions on snow, in effect since 1-1-2006. The current overlapping of CSN 73 0035 with CSN 1991-1-4 Actions on wind thus far, has not resulted in any critical reaction. This contribution should warn designers against an insufficient number of anchors for contact insulation, something that very often occurs. This number depends on the wind load, which in turn, is dependent on normative values. These are listed in a separate standard and are increasing, just like the snow loads.

This paper follows the text [9] on a prediction of the Sound Reduction Index of single building structures published last year. Present paper focuses on multi-layered walls, especially on a part represented by double structures that give the higher sound insulation than single walls, having the same surface mass. However, much more complicated prediction process of the SRI of such structures is an obvious problem. This paper is based on author´s PhD thesis.

Thermal properties of enclosure walls have considerable impact on energy consumption of block of flats. Nowadays the proposal of insulation thickness in thermal insulation composite systems is often underestimated. This article is focused on proposal of optimal thermal insulation thickness in light of economy and energy performance.

Imact of heat cost allocation measurement on heat consumption is discussed in the introductory part of the paper. Two different ways of heat balance are described further. One, based on heat incoming into a measured room, and the other based on heat leaving the room. In both cases the heat cost allocator‘s measured values are compared with economic behaviour of a flat user. Cost allocator’s measured values are converted into heat cost ratio on total heat cost of the whole building. The measured values of indicators and their variance are compared under operational conditions with billed price for each flat user.

These times are characterised by the current issues associated with the declining reserves of raw materials and energy sources, with global climate change and the excessive pollution of soil, water and air. All this significantly affect the production of building materials. It is known that the construction and proper operation of buildings is one of the main consumer and energy sources of environmental pollution, and this not only during the building process, but during all the stages of their existence. These trends are reflected in the research and development of new structures and materials. This happens not only in developed countries, but also here, where our focus is slowly shifting from energy-intensive technologies to those based on organic materials. It is actually them who fulfil most of the requirements for sustainable development. Thanks to its origin and good qualities wood should be unambiguously classified.

In the last few years more and more construction companies have started to project and build wooden houses, some even with more than one floor. However, during the design of the structure they often forget the requirements of ČSN 73 0532, that deals with impact and noise insulation. The problem lies in the fact that, in practice, the only methods used are those to determine the weighted sound reduction values for silicate based structure, while they will fail in a wooden construction. This paper presents a computational procedure for determining the airborne sound reduction of cellular type soffits. When designing or renovating buildings a comprehensive account of all aspects should be given (construction, structural, architectural, financial and others). Nowadays the financial aspect is very crucial and therefore, more and more clients are interested in the energy performance of buildings. However, in terms of comfort of the people living in the interior the aspects of acoustics, lighting and heating are more important.

The paper describes the possibilities how to maintain and improve the physical properties of lightweight slab (floor structures) in the field of building physics with all of it's fundamental drawbacks throughout their erection. The thermo-technical properties are solved in conjunction with problems in the field of building acoustics together with the analysis of unknown factors like the influence of electroiont microclimate.

Heat released in biomass combustion can be effectively stored in an accumulation tank. Traditionally, water is used as a main heat transfer medium. However, progressive materials, such as Phase Change Materials (PCM´s), offer better heat storage capacities. The materials work on principle of sensible and latent heat accumulation / release. While the phase change material takes up the heat, during the reversed process the stored latent heat is released. In our work the following materials were studied: paraffinic waxes, fatty acids and their eutectic mixtures. These materials provide higher heat potential per unit volume. Therefore, PCM´s can prolong the lifetime of biomass-fired systems.

A revised version of the directive was issued in 2010 under the title 2010/31/EU. In part, it is a modification of the original. In it, there are have been defined new administrative tools to increase the energy performance of buildings - among others, it includes the concept of "building with almost 0 energy consumption".

Room ventilation means securing a supply, usually of outdoor air, that will contain negligible or lower concentrations of pollutants, such as those that are produced in the room. The article gives examples of simulated production of pollutants in rooms.

The article presents facts about the occurrence and status of lifts in blocks of flats. In it can be seen all the types of lifts of the manufacturers of the time, which were installed in panel buildings, and their operational risks from the perspective of CSN EN 81-80. The period mapped goes from 1965 through 1993.