Obtaining knowledge on the procedures for manufacturing, the most important properties, investigation methods and application of the most often used construction materials and materials for special applications.

Acquired knowledge is used by students in other professional courses and on graduating, in the engineering practice. Student is competent to choose and define the required properties of fundamental construction materials during the design, as well as to use and control the quality of these materials during building.

Manufacturing, most important properties, and application possibilities in construction practice of the following traditional and contemporary materials: Construction stone and aggregates for mortars and concrete; Construction ceramics (wall, roof, and ceramics for covers and paths); Non-organic binding materials (construction lime, construction gypsum, cements); Lime-silicate materials; Mortars (for plastering, for building, and special mortars, mortar content); Concrete – basic notions and concrete products (prefabricates); Wood and wood-based products, faults of wood and timber, timber durability and protection; Construction glass; Materials with special application (hydro insulation materials, thermal insulation materials, paints, lacquers and glues); Technical conditions and quality control for construction materials. Illustration of the application of traditional and contemporary materials for building via the survey of the most common structures in individual historical eras.

During lectures, presentations with photographs, tables, diagrams, formulas and emphasised text – definitions are used to explain the students the course content predicted by the curriculum. There are also short thematic films. In laboratory practice, students can observe or do by themselves the standard examinations of construction materials. A part of the practice is computing, where students use tasks to connect the presented course content with the construction practice. Professional excursion (construction fair and interesting structures under construction) is obligatory for all students.