Structural Units

Director: Prof. Dr. habil. sc. ing. Egils DZELZITIS

The Institute was founded in 1993. Director prof. Andris Kreslins (from 1993), Vice-prof. Prof. Egils Dzelzitis. In 2014, the Faculty Council elected Prof. Egils Dzelzitis as the Director of the Institute. The Institute includes the Departments of Heat Supply, Gas Supply and Ventilation and Water Supply and Sewerage. As the composition of the Departments and the fields of study changed, the two Departments acquired their current names - the Department of Heat Engineering and Technology and the Department of Water Engineering and Technology.

The Institute offers higher education in the programme "Heat Gas and Water Technology". It is an important sub-discipline of civil engineering, closely related to energy, mechanical engineering, ecology and environmental protection, based mainly on flow mechanics, engineering thermodynamics, thermal physics of construction, acoustics and light engineering, applied climatology, water chemistry, microbiology and human psychophysiology. The study programme offers the possibility to specialise in two fields: building engineering systems and urban infrastructure. Each of these offers specialised subjects. The Building Engineering Systems specialisation includes: heating and air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, gas, cold and hot water supply, sewerage, fire-fighting equipment and systems. In the area of settlement infrastructure: district heating, conventional and alternative sources of thermal energy, gas supply, water supply and sewerage, their regional planning aspects, as well as gas transport and storage, drinking water abstraction and treatment, water treatment plants, fire-fighting water treatment, transport and storage.

RTU is the only university in Latvia that trains engineers and researchers in this specialty for large joint stock companies and municipal enterprises such as JSC "Latvijas Gāze", "Rīgas Siltums", "Rīgas Ūdens", etc., as well as specialists for the design and installation of building engineering systems. Heat, gas and water technology specialists provide heating, gas supply, water supply and sewerage services to the infrastructure of cities and other settlements and carry out the necessary modernisation, operation and maintenance of the engineering systems installed in buildings.

http://sguti.rtu.lv/

https://www.facebook.com/SiltumaGazesUdensTehnologijas/

Director: Prof. Dr. sc. ing. Martins VILNITIS

The Institute was founded in 1993/1994. At the beginning of 1993-1995, together with other academic institutes of the Faculty of Civil Engineering. For the first years the Institute was headed by Assoc. prof. Juris Noviks (1993-2000). From 2000 to 2013, the Director of the Institute was elected Assoc. prof. Jānis Grabis. Since 2013, the Director of the Institute has been Associate Professor Mārtiņš Vilnitis.

At the beginning of its establishment, the Institute was composed of three departments: Construction Production, Construction Materials and Building Products, Industrial and Civil Construction, as well as the Concrete Technological Mechanics Laboratory (from 2000 - Concrete Mechanics Laboratory). In 1998, four groups of professors were created from the departments of construction: professors of construction materials, construction technology and mechanisation, civil construction and geotechnics. In the following years, the professorial groups were restructured. Prof. The new head of the Construction Technology Department was Prof. J. Novik, the Head of the Construction Machinery and Construction Mechanisation Department was Prof. V. Mironov, and for civil buildings and geotechnics, Assoc. prof. Prof. J. Grabi. The group of the professor of building materials was later renamed the group of building materials in construction and, together with the building materials laboratory, was incorporated into the Institute of Materials and Structures of the Faculty in 2001.

In 2005, the Department of Construction Production was reconstituted from the Professor Groups of Construction Technology, Construction Machinery and Construction Mechanisation, and the Department of Civil Building Construction was reconstituted from the Professor Groups of Civil Building Construction and Geotechnics. The Concrete Mechanics Laboratory and the Centre for Ecological Construction were also incorporated into the Institute of Building Production.

Director: Prof. Dr. sc. ing. Andris CATE

Established in 1994 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering as the Automated Design of Structures Profile Institute, with Professor Dr. habil. sc. ing. Rolands Rikards. In 1999, a separate group of professors for the Automated Design of Structural Structures was established at the Profile Institute, headed by Dr. sc. ing. In 2001, the Profilinstitut was reorganised and renamed the Institute of Materials and Structures. The Institute was expanded with a professorial group on the use of building construction materials, which was taken over from the Institute of Building Production. As a result of the subsequent changes, the Group of Professor of Automated Design of Building Structures was transformed into the Department of Composite Materials and Structures in 2003, and the Group of Professor of Building Materials Applications into the Group of Professor of Building Materials and Construction Products, which was reorganised into the Department of Building Materials and Construction Products in 2014. The Institute of Materials and Structures was headed by prof. R. Rikard, but since 2008 the Director of the Institute is prof. A. Cate.

https://ims.rtu.lv/?lang=en