István Hajnal, FRICS is a honorary associate professor in the Department of Construction Technology and Management at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His research focuses on real estate valuation methodologies and facility management.
He is the CEO of Biggeorge’s-NV real estate development company. Over the past 25 years, he was a top manager in various consultant and real estate firms, such as Coopers and Lybrand, Arthur Andersen and Europa Real Estate Investment Fund.
István Hajnal is a lecturer of international and Hungarian real estate related courses and a member of various professional bodies including RICS. He has written a number of books and articles regarding real estate valuation, facility management and real estate investment and he is a frequent speaker at conferences, seminars.
Renata Kozik, PhD Eng, works as an assistant professor for the Institute of Construction and Transportation Engineering & Managementat Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology. Since 1.09.2013 she is a vice head of the Institute of Construction and Transportation Engineering & Management. Deputy Project Manager – Project title “Modern building – postgraduate studies” project financed by EU (2009-2012), supervisor of postgraduate studies and courses.
On 21st December 2005 she has completed Ph.D. thesis in technical sciences, the construction discipline at Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Renata Kozik is the author and co-author of more than 40 publications in the field of organization and management of construction projects, tendering and bidding in construction, building contracts, public procurement and strategic management in construction company. She publishes in re-viewed national and international scientific journals. She has participated in many conferences including international. She is also the co-author of academic textbook. Renata Kozik has been the co-author of expertises prepared for courts, construction company and other organizations.
Research interests: tendering and bidding in construction, public procurement, green procurement, planning and organization of construction projects, building contracts, application of fuzzy logic in construction management, strategic management in construction company,
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Elżbieta Radziszewska-Zielina is Head of the Department of Construction Technology and Organization in Institute of Construction and Transportation Engineering & Management at Cracow University of Technology. She graduated from the Cracow University of Technology with an MA degree in construction (building constructions) and from the Jagiellonian University with an MA degree in economic sociology and market research. In 2001, she completed the Postgraduate Doctoral Program of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Cracow University of Technology with the defence of her doctoral thesis “Technical and technological parameters of building thermomodernization investments and their market evaluation”. In January 2012, on the basis of assessment of her overall scientific output and her habilitation thesis “Analysis of the partnering relations of construction enterprises”, the Faculty Council conferred on her the title of doctor habilitatus.
Her scholarly intersets are related to organization and management in construction industry.
Her scholarly output amounts to over 100 publications, including the monograph “Studies of the Partner Relations of Construction Companies”.
She has been commissioned by the construction industry and research institutes to design and implement research and to perform construction market analyses. She is the author of 7 projects reserved for construction industry.
Wojciech Drozd, Ph. D, works in the Institute of Construction and Transportation Engineering & Management at Cracow University of Technology. On 17th October 2007 she defended her doctoral dissertation.
Wojciech Drozd’s scope of interest encompasses such issues as technology and safety of building works. He has published over 20 articles in Polish journals and in reviewed conference materials.
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Edyta Plebankiewicz, Ph. D, works in the Institute of Construction and Transportation Engineering & Management at Cracow University of Technology. On 12th December 2001 she defended her doctoral dissertation and on 19th June 2013 the Faculty Council of the Civil Engineering Faculty at Cracow Technical University granted her a postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in technical sciences in the construction discipline.
Edyta Plebankiewicz’s scope of interest encompasses such issues as commissioning building works, analysed from the point of view of both the contractor and the construction client, and cost calculation in the investment process. Her models of the processes employ fuzzy logic. She has published over 70 articles in Polish and foreign journals, 30 articles in reviewed conference materials, a textbook and a postdoctoral dissertation. Her articles devoted to modeling various issues in construction management using fuzzy sets were published in, for instance, Automation in Construction Journals, Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, or Technological and Economic Development of Economy.
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