Departmental Description – what we do

Water in the landscape
  • General hydrology
  • Forest hydrology
  • Hydraulics
  • Nature-based stream treatment
  • Revitalisation of streams
  • Damming of rapids and ravines
  • Water retention in the landscape
Landscape accessibility
  • Making the landscape accessible for recreational purposes
  • Forest transport network
  • Dirt roads
  • Optimising access to the landscape
Biotechnical landscaping
  • Complex biotechnical landscape improvements
  • Hydraulic and anti-erosion landscape modifications
  • Use of tree species and their functional types
  • Landscape reclamation
  • Landscape revitalisation
Buildings in the landscape
  • Accessibility structures – road networks and their accessories
  • Small water management structures
  • Small water reservoirs and ponds
  • Functional building structures in the landscape (recreational, anti-erosion, etc.)
  • Soil mechanics, building foundations, technical and structural mechanics
Design in the landscape
  • Buildings intended for forest functions
  • Water management and landscape engineering
  • Territorial systems of ecological stability
  • Biotechnical landscaping
  • Land improvements
  • Functional types of woody vegetation in the landscape
Functions of landscapes and their components
  • Optimising use of productive landscape functions
  • Quantification of landscape hydric functions
  • Landscape stabilisation functions
  • Recreational landscape functions – quantification, optimisation and interpretation

Background – where we work

  • Building B on the university campus – houses the main facilities for scientific work and teaching. The Department’s offices are located on the 4th floor, while the classrooms can be found on the 4th and 6th floors
  • The Soil Mechanics Laboratory, located on the 4th floor, provides facilities for testing required to classify soils for construction purposes, from index tests required for the design of landscaping structures to mechanical property (deformation and strength) tests required for the design of linear and civil structures.
  • The Masaryk Forest Living Lab (School Forest Enterprise Křtiny; near the town of Křtiny) aims to become part of a European network of Living Labs established under the European Union’s Horizon Project ‘Water4All’. The laboratory focusses on all aspects of forest water retention, with a main mission to provide accurate data on rainfall-runoff processes and the hydrological balance of forests and to test potential elements that serve to retain water in forests.

Cooperation – we are not alone

  • As the Department is application and design oriented, cooperation with commercial and external institutions has become an integral part of its activities. Experts from commercial and cooperating institutions regularly take part in practical classes and excursions, are members of various teaching advisory bodies and participate in projects. International cooperation takes place primarily through scientific research collaboration, with members of the Department publishing, submitting projects and participating in conferences with foreign colleagues.

Professional and assessment activities

  • The Department’s staff have range of expertise in forestry, water management and the environment (forensic expertise) and are regularly called upon to carry out professional assessment activities in the fields of water management, landscape engineering, suburban forestry, spatial planning and development, recreology and construction materials engineering.
Planning offices, commercial firms and administrative authorities
  • Paměť krajiny, s.r.o. – biotechnika krajinné zeleně
  • Povodí Moravy a.s. – vodní hospodářství
  • Šindlar, s.r.o. – krajinné inženýrství
  • Ekostavby, s.r.o. – drobné stavby v krajině
  • ŠLP Křtiny – lesní hospodářství
  • Správa CHKO Moravský Kras – ochrana přírody
  • Ateliér Fontes, s.r.o. – krajinné inženýrství
  • Aquasys, s.r.o.  – krajinné inženýrství
  • GEOSTAR, spol. s r. o. – materiálové inženýrství
  • Sdružení pro interpretaci místního dědictví – funkce krajiny
Higher education institutions, research Departments
  • FAST VUT v Brně
  • Výzkumný ústav vodohospodářský TGM Praha, v.v.i
  • Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně Ústí nad Labem
  • Báňská univerzita Ostrava, pobočka Brno
  • VÚKOZ, v.v.i.
  • Centrum dopravního výzkumu, v. v. i.
Membership in organisations
  • Poradní sbor ŠLP Křtiny
  • Společnost pro krajinnou ekologii – IALE
  • Expertní komise Ekologie při mezinárodní komisi pro ochranu Dunaje – MKOD
  • Interní grantová agentura LDF MENDELU
  • Poradní sbor Naše společná krajina
  • Česká společnost krajinných inženýrů
  • Česká bioklimatická společnost
  • Expertní skupiny při GAČR, TAČR
  • Expertní skupiny při KEGA, VEGA
  • MRS, ČMMJ
  • Interpret Europe
  • Sdružení pro interpretaci místního dědictví
List of foreign partners
  • Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita v  Nitre, Slovakia
  • Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Slovakia
  • Technická univerzita vo Zvolene, Slovakia
  • Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
  • Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie, Poland
  • University of Basilicata, Italy
  • Kauno miškų ir aplinkos inžinerijos kolegia, Lithuania
  • University of Bucharest, Romania
  • Zagazig University, Egypt
  • Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia
  • Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet Uppsala, Sweden
  • Guimaras State University, Philippines
  • Visayas State University, Philippines
  • Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia
  • Università degli Studi di Padova

Departmental Employees – who we are

In addition to meeting the university’s academic requirements, with both academically oriented and chamber-authorised design oriented staff, the Department’s team is structured to include representatives of all specialisations provided by the Department. Great emphasis is placed on supporting young staff members, especially junior researchers and PhD students.

doc. Ing. Petr Kupec, Ph.D.
Academic staff – Associate Professor – Department of Landscape Management
Head of department – Department of Landscape Management
Vice-dean – Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology
DLM FFWT, Zemědělská 3, 61300 Brno (Černá Pole)
Office: B4.12
+420 545 134 097
Department of Civil Engineering, Landscape Design and Conservation
Faculty of Forestry nad Wood Technology
Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno
+420 545 134 083
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