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In the recent years, sustainable construction is increasingly popular, especially in terms of ecology and the inner climate. This predominantly concerns commercial office buildings in which the achievement of an adequate standard and inner climate of rooms is often the most important criterion for the customer renting the premises. The analyzed professional literature indicates that the costs borne by potential tenants, the owners of the buildings and the society as a whole, caused by adverse inner environment con...

Industrial sectors, including the building sector, started to recognize the impact of their activities on the environment in the 1990s. Significant changes were needed to mitigate the environmental impact of building sector. One option to reduce these negative effects is sustainable construction approach, which is starting already sustainable design of construction. Sustainable design of construction includes social, economic, and environmental indicators of construction projects. Waste management presents signifi...

A specific feature of thermal power plants (TPP) is the multivariate nature of their intense technogenic impact on the environment, including pollution of air, environmental waters, soils, as well as disturbance of the geologic environment. Besides, TPPs cause thermal, radiation, noise and electromagnetic pollution; they also induce physical littering of the terrain and problems associated with storage of ash waste. Due to the reasons stated above, a comprehensive study of environmental damage zones caused by TPP ...

Since thermal energy is one of the most environmentally hazardous industries, the issues of environmental compatibility of thermal power stations (TPPs) construction are the priority. One of the main supporting pre-project documents on projected construction of TPP is a report on its environmental impact assessment (EIA). Due to the diversity of technology options for generating electrical power, as well as differences in natural and man-made, economic, social and other conditions of the territories intended for T...

Atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) dispersion conditions relate to key natural factors that characterize radiation and environmental safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs). Therefore, the said conditions are studied in sufficient detail even at pre-design stages of NPPs construction. Given the ongoing development of nuclear power industry, synthesis of methodological approaches to NPP siting options with due account of atmospheric dispersion conditions is of great interest. Formal pursuit of requirements and recommen...

Technological and material analysis of construction works helps to achieve the intended goals set for a given undertaking taking into investment not only time and cost factors. It is worth considering the choice of a design solution in terms of material and work technology. The authors exchanged the benefits of the analysis of the technological and material performance of construction works for both the investor and the contractor. They presented the evaluation method using the selection of appropriate criteria. A...