BUILDING MATERIALS

• Theoretical basis of building materials science;
• Nanotechnology in the production of building materials;
• Modern high-performance concretes;
• Construction of modern multifunctional composites;
• Materials for road construction;
• Technologies of utilization and use in the production of building materials of industrial waste;
• Methods of testing, quality control of building materials and products;
• Technology of finishing and insulation materials and products;
• Estimation and increase of durability of building materials and products.

RELIABILITY AND SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION

• The theory of calculation of structures;
• High-rise and large-span buildings and structures;
• Modern principles of calculation and design of structures of buildings and structures (including special purpose);
• Bases, foundations, underground structures;
• Tests, diagnostics, monitoring of the reliability of facilities;
• Fire safety of buildings and structures;
• Safety of buildings in special conditions of external influences, with combined special effects;
• Ecological safety in construction;

ENGINEERING AND SMART SYSTEMS IN CONSTRUCTION

• Engineering system, technique and technology;
• Built environment quality;
• Energy efficiency in construction;
• Intellectual systems and automatics in construction. Cyber-physical systems. Smart City.

MODELLING AND MECHANICS OF BUILDING STRUCTURES

• Mathematical models of mechanics of a deformable solids mechanics and its application;
• The theory of elastic and plasticity;
• Fracture mechanics;
• Theoretical and structural mechanics;
• Model operation of dynamic loading;
• Modelling and simulation of structures.

MANAGEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION

• Innovations as the basis of sustainable development in construction and allied industries;
• Improvement of the approaches to the construction enterprises management in the context of relevant innovative development problems;
• Methods and instruments of the life cycle management for the land-and-property complexes as the subject of investment-and-construction activity;
• Staffing of the enterprises in the investment-and-construction field in the context of the branch innovative development

RISK MANAGEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION

• Methods and models of risk management in construction;
• Optimal and innovative tasks in a modern enterprise under development;
• Ecological and economic systems and risks;
• Expertise in housing and community services;
• Risks at public utilities;
• Sustainability risk management to protect the environment;
• Interactive teaching of risk management in the construction industry;
• Project and program risks management in construction.