Contracts

The Centre of Excellence in Telč cooperates with a broad range of research and commercial subjects as well as public, educational, clerical and other institutions, not only through grant projects but also on the basis of contractual research.

Expert and consulting activities

In the area of commercial cooperation, CET offers collaboration with construction and engineering companies, design firms and manufacturers of building materials, manufacturers of diagnostic equipment, and software producers to study the behaviour of building materials and structures under adverse weather conditions and to monitor changes in degradation processes, etc. 

Competence

The laboratories are staffed with top-class experts, who are used to fulfil their tasks from the initial analysis of the problem through a complex solution design and its experimental verification up until a comprehensible interpretation of results for the client. For example, ITAM CET is a partner of the newly built European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS).

Examples of selected services

- Measurement and simulation of wind pressure on buildings or sets of buildings with complex shapes (tall buildings, heritage buildings, sculptures, facade envelopes and roof decks etc.)

- Measurement of aerodynamic instability of bridges, poles and towers

- Simulation of stratified air flow

- Study of well-being in public premises, sports facilities etc.

- Simulation of water penetration under wind-driven rain and measurement of efficiency of hydrophobic surface protection

- Study of frost deposit development on bridge cables and their impact on the bridge aerodynamics

- Micro-tomography of complex structures under load (bones, composites)

- Complex measurement of porosity of inorganic composites and their fracture properties

- Complex physical/chemical and biological analyses of historical materials, assessment of their condition and proposals for preservation or preventive protection

- Measurement of nanoindentation characteristics

- Measurement of thermal expansion

- Tests of material degradation under various climatic loads in the climatic wind tunnel Vincenc Strouhal and in climatic chambers (gas mixes, solar radiation, salt mist)

- Field diagnostics of condition of wooden structures including measurement of strength using a patented miniature press

- Diagnostics of condition of buildings affected by natural disasters and proposals for their preventive protection

- Assessment of buildings damaged by natural disasters and proposals for recovery measures

- Estimates of impacts of mass tourism or development projects on cultural heritage;

Target groups

- Architects, design and manufacturing companies in civil and mechanical engineering

- Manufacturers of building materials

- Manufacturers of diagnostic instrumentation, software producers

- State institutions and public administration bodies responsible for management and implementation of care for cultural heritage, namely in historical areas

- Owners and managers of historical buildings

- Institutions responsible for planning of research programmes, creation of strategies, support for research and education in the field of cultural heritage etc.

- Standard-setting and normative bodies, state testing

- Research institutes and universities

Results, references and examples of cooperation

Heritage care procedures, certified methodologies, utility designs, reports and expert opinions in the field of protection and preservation of cultural heritage as well as existing building stock. References and examples of cooperation: National Heritage Institute, National Museum, National Technical Museum, Vysočina Museum in Jihlava, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, National Gallery in Prague, Metropolitan Chapter of St. Vitus in Prague etc., Aqua, restoration of structures s.r.o., GEMA ART GROUP a. s., Stavební huť Slavonice, spol. s r. o., Excon, IBZ Freiberg, Fraunhofer Institut WKI Braunschweig,  Faculty of Restoration UP Litomyšl, Institute of Archeology of the CAS, Department of Chemical Technology of Monument Conservation UCT Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU in Prague, Automotive Lightning a.s., METROSTAV a.s., HESS TIMBER Gmbh, INRECO, s.r.o., ALLCONS Industry, s. r. o.,  NANO PLM + s. r. o., AZ - Pokorný s.r.o., BAUSYSTEM Kft., Bilfinger Babcock CZ s.r.o., EXCON a.s., GEFOS a.s., Noliac Ceramics s.r.o., SDS EXMOST spol. s r.o., WPC - WOODPLASTIC a.s.,  IBZ - Salzchemie GmbH & Co.KG, Sobriety, s. r. o., VCES a.s., WISTERIA s.r.o.