Document is repealed

1. This order is issued as a follow-up to restrictive measures of the Czech Government, respective ministries and other bodies issued to mitigate the risks of coronavirus (contagious viral disease) infection, and based on up-to-date information on the development of the current coronavirus situation; the provisions of this order do not apply in cases where stricter conditions, rules and procedures are set by legal regulations or other binding measures of a higher legal force ¹.

2. This order can be additionally further specified by the Faculty Dean. The Vice-Dean for Education, the Vice-Dean for Science and Research and the Faculty Treasurer are entitled to issue methodological instructions to implement this order. Any potential specifications and methodological instructions will be sent to students and employees by email and, at the same time, published on the Faculty website.

3. This order is in force from 18. 5. 2020 to 31. 5. 2020 when the Faculty is in limited operation.

1. The Faculty employees and students are obliged to become familiar, on a daily basis, with current information on the situation in terms of the CTU and Faculty policies in connection with the coronavirus disease, published on the CTU website or on the Faculty website and abide by the instructions published there. The employees who do not have access to the web interface must be mediated this information by their immediate superiors. Students will also be informed via the CTU Study Information System ("KOS").

2. Instruction has been replaced, to a maximum possible extent, by contactless teaching (i.e. using online teaching and remote electronic means of communication). Contact instruction may be held provided the condition of the maximum presence of 15 students in a group is observed. The Faculty staff responsible for organizing contact teaching shall provide the Management with the list of persons participating in contact teaching within the group. The list will be filed for 60 days from the end of the state of emergency. Send the list by email at: eva.steffelova@fsv.cvut.cz.

3. Consultations can be held in a contact format on the Faculty campus with the presence of no more than 15 students in a group provided the persons offering the consultation agree with it and organize holding the consultation pursuant to the principles specified in this order. The Faculty staff responsible for holding the consultation shall provide the Management with the list of persons participating in the contact consultation within the group. The list will be filed for 60 days from the end of the state of emergency. Send the list by email at: eva.steffelova@fsv.cvut.cz. Contact consultations must be held in dedicated rooms observing public health regulations in the case that the consultation is not individual (with the presence of only one student). Contactless consultations should be preferred, or individual consultations, if needed, and group consultations should only be held in exceptional cases.

4. In organizing study and holding examinations, the following regulations apply:
   1. Rector´s Order No. 9/2020 on the organization of study and implementation of examinations at CTU in connection with restrictive measures for the mitigation of risks of infection by coronavirus disease as amended;
   2. CTU methodological instructions issued by the CTU Vice-Rector for Bachelor and Master Studies and the Vice-Rector for Science, Creative Activities and Ph.D. Studies;
   3. Dean´s Measure No. 10/2020 for the verification of study results in the examination session of the spring semester of the 2019/2020 academic year as amended;
   4. Dean´s Measure No. 11/2020 for the organization of doctoral final graduation examinations and defences of dissertations in a distance and semi-contact format at the Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU in Prague in 2020 as amended.

5. The Faculty operation hours and access rules may be limited. Students are only allowed access to the Faculty via the main front desk. Students must ring the bell at the main entrance and their ID card will let them pass through the turnstiles. Additional safety measures may be performed at the front desk (e.g. taking temperature, compulsory use of hand sanitizer gel, etc.).

6. In justified cases, meetings, discussions, conferences, working sessions, etc. can be held in a contact format on the Faculty campus provided the number of participants does not exceed 15 persons. The Faculty staff responsible for holding such a meeting shall provide the Management with the list of persons participating in the contact meeting within the group. The list will be filed for 60 days from the end of the state of emergency. Send the list by email at: eva.steffelova@fsv.cvut.cz.

7. Functional Faculty units such as the buffet, reading room, study, FITNESS centre, stationery shop, etc. will be opened on an individual basis as arranged between the owner and the Faculty Management.

8. Unless they can be adjourned, the proceedings of the Faculty bodies will be organized as videoconferences or teleconferences, or will use voting by correspondence.

9. Foreign business trips of the Faculty employees and students´ trips abroad organized by the Faculty are not allowed. In justified cases, an exception may be granted by the Faculty Management, please contact the Faculty Treasurer in this matter.

10. Accepting foreign guests is not allowed. In justified cases, an exception may be granted by the Faculty Management, please contact the Faculty Treasurer in this matter.

11. Persons (students or Faculty employees) who are under mandatory quarantine or who have been infected by coronavirus disease are obliged to report this fact immediately at: eva.steffelova@fsv.cvut.cz, including the information whether they have visited the Faculty campus and which places in the last 14 days and, potentially, what persons from the Faculty they have met.

12. It is recommended not to visit places with higher concentrations of people, not only on the Faculty campus.

13. Work is done, to a maximum possible extent, in a contactless format using electronic means of communication. Where possible, working from home office is used so that the employees stay at the workplace for a minimum time, taking turns working in the office and, in general, meeting each other as little as possible.

14. For the whole time of anybody´s stay on the Faculty campus, people are obliged to use respiratory and facial protection equipment (face masks); this does not apply to the case of consuming necessary food or drinks. The person who will not be wearing such protection equipment will not be let into the building (this also refers to the mail room) or will be ordered to leave.

15. The largest distance possible between persons should be kept on the Faculty campus, at least 1.5 metres. In the case of non-compliance, persons may be ordered out of the Faculty campus.

1. This order comes into force starting from 18. 5. 2020.

2. The above measures replace previously continuously sent operational measures and the Faculty regulations referring to the infection by coronavirus disease.

prof. Ing. Jiří Máca, CSc.
Faculty Dean

¹ E.g. acts, decrees, government resolutions, ministry guidelines, obligatory measures issued by other bodies, etc