Jonas Šaparauskas

• Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sustainability in Construction Engineering" that was published in "Sustainability" journal. http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/754

The first defensive element of the building against the explosion is the façade. On the condition that façade is not resistant against explosion and encounters the damage, the blast wave will enter the construction and increases financial losses and casualties. With respect to that glass facades do not possess adequate strength under the explosion;...

Crisis of the real estate sector resulted in disadvantageous conditions for legal entities operating in the field of construction and implementation of new property development projects. As a result, many such entities started investigating their options to offer construction services and products to more economically attractive foreign markets. Th...

"70th anniversary of the birth of Academician Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas review."Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 20(2), pp. 182-192

„The twentieth anniversary of the journal: editor's introduction" Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 20(2), p. 181-183

Public higher education sector is under a growing pressure worldwide to increase efficiency and improve the quality of its activities. Limited financial resources as well as detailed regulations and supervision of their spending are the important features of the public higher education sector. Another important and debated issue is the division of...

Construction companies usually perform several construction projects at the same time. Projects differ by complexity, duration, budget, variety of works, and number of implementers. Also vary the results of the projects: some of them have been implemented successfully, other terminated with losses or accidents. To determine the causes of one or ano...

Alternative design solutions of buildings can be successfully evaluated applying Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. There are a lot of methods available for supporting complex decisions in construction. However, previous research works show that various MCDM methods can produce different ranking results. Accordingly, three criteria o...

A major topic among the current researches on energy is a sustainable energy development and assessment. An importance of energy system is obvious in our life. There are many important energy applications. There are heating and cooling, power generation, desalination, air conditioning and so on. By the year 2020 world will need 50% more energy than...

The paper employs a couple of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods: innovative, newly developed WASPAS (Weighted Aggregated Sum Product ASsessment), reputed MOORA (Multiple Objective Optimisation on the basis of Ratio Analysis) method consisting of the Ratio System and the Reference Point approach, also MULTIMOORA (MOORA plus Full Multi...

One of important thing that causes a band be famous is multirole artists. A person with several abilities more than singing that help band to compose better songs. These artists are very famous but awards don't consider any special award for them. Life of rock genre is to short in Iran but during these years many bands work in Iran while there isn'...

An appropriate mechanism for supporting design management practices at an early stage of project is crucial in terms of adding value over scope, time and total investment strategic decisions. The clients are not only interested in value for money in relation to the investment in project development but costs associated in operation and maintenance...

The purpose of this article – is compare different designs of building or its structure and to select the best alternative using criteria of optimality. These three criteria make possible to evaluate design solutions which can be characterized by quantitative and qualitative criteria which possibly have different weight, dimension and direction of...

This research consists of 5 stages: comparative description of the sustainable urban development in developed countries and in Vilnius; a comparison and contrast of sustainable urban development in developed countries and Vilnius; a development of some of the general recommendations as how to improve the efficiency levels for a sustainable Vilnius;...

The purpose of this article – is to create theoretical model in order to enable in automated manner to compare different solutions of building, its part or structure design and to select the best alternative under specific circumstances. Summarizing variant design theory and practice applications in Lithuania and abroad, evaluation model of alterna...

Successful strategies for sustainable urban development should be more or less compatible with political, economic, social, cultural, institutional, technological, environmental , legal / regulatory and educational situations in the country. The list of urban sustainability indicators is not finite. Each year hundreds of social, economic and enviro...

The analysis of information, expert and decision support systems used in sustainable urban development that were developed by researchers from various countries assisted the authors in the creation of their own Sustainable Urban Development Decision Support System (SUD-DSS). SUD-DSS differs from other systems in the use of new multiple criteria ana...

Sustainable construction is a relevant subject in contemporary world because it is one of approaches achieving sustainability in all the spheres of society development. The authors reveal difficulties which emerge in creating the indicator system for sustainability evaluation, searching for information concerning indicators and in making mathematic...

The main purpose of this article is sustainability evaluation of Vilnius development by comparing the selected city's neighbourhoods. Firstly, all neighbourhoods of Vilnius are being grouped according to particular features. For a comprehensive comparative analysis the group of ten neighbourhoods has been chosen. They are “Fabijoniškes”, “Justinišk...

The authors of the paper had analyzed the variety of services, geographical markets, types of objects under implementation and other ratios of activities of seven biggest Lithuanian construction companies in order to determine the optimal level of diversification of construction products, geographical markets and the number of construction related...

Life in any modern city of the world is concentrated mostly in a particular ever‐changing environment. Micro, meso and macro environments have a direct impact on sustainable urban development opportunities. This may facilitate sustainable urban development or, on the contrary, it may create constraints. Micro, meso and macro environments must be co...

Knowledge management definitions are presented in the paper. The types of capital acknowledged by modern economics theory and their relationship to knowledge management are investigated. It is emphasized that recently organizations pay more attention to personnel, their knowledge management, but not to technologies, i.e. organizations realize that...

It this article the author discussed how buildings influence environment. The main sustainable buildings information sources' review was made briefly. There are guides, handbooks, guidelines, databases, software and web-based tools. This information is needed to facilitate decision-making during the completion of a building's design, its constructi...

There are many interpretations of definition of sustainable construction, consequently the author has analysed contemporary researches on this topic. Summarizing work done it become clear that sustainable construction is a way for the building industry to move towards achieving sustainable development, taking into account environmental, social and...

The aim of this study was to assess the sustainable development of Vilnius residential districts. To this end, a thorough analysis of scientific articles, specific databases and other information sources was made, different indicator systems for assessment of sustainable urban development were reviewed and a system of 22 indices defining the aspect...