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The Creative Process Of Architecture And Building Information Modeling, Daniel Guralumi

UBT International Conference

Building Information Modeling and architecture, more commonly known as BIM is the subject of many discussions in the architectural communities lately. The architectural design is a complex set of transactions where the knowledge of many disciplines meets the professionalism of people involved, however most of the interaction is done on paper-based communication. Building Information Modeling, the subject of this paper, is a design strategy which aspires to be much more than a mere information exchange tool: it is rather a coordinated and holistic approach aimed to assist designer, engineers, developers, decision makers, contractors and owners. A digital model derived from …

Initiatives On Urban Transformation In South-East Europe: Case Prishtina, Florina Jerliu

UBT International Conference

Countries forming the South East Europe (SEE) face common post-socialist and/or pos-war challenges since 1990s. Among issues identified in SEE is the rapid transformation of physical environment between early 1990s and today. More specifically, unchecked urban development has been identified as a common challenge in the region, and as such, it has drawn the attention of a wider Europe. Being committed to upgrade urban situations, a number of initiatives, both governmental and nongovernmental, have been created and jointly initiated regional projects for devising solutions in local level that may apply in a wider regional context. The criticism about urban occurrences …

Sustainable Renovation In Kosova, Sadije Kelmendi

UBT International Conference

The built environment is one of the most obvious examples of the impact of human activity. Globally, buildings have a substantial impact on our energy use and the pollution of our environment. Buildings consume 35-40% of our primary energy. From that 35-40% of buildingrelated CO2 emissions, 29% of that could be cut by 2020 using existing technologies. Governments around the world are starting to define requirements for sustainable buildings. Targets are being set for reductions in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. As Kosova faces big energy challenges in both low energy production and at the same time high energy …

After Earthquake Damage And Behavior Of Buildings In Gjilan Region, Bajram Shefkiu, Burbuge Shatri, Vlora Shatri

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Various types of structures were assessed after an earthquake that struck Gjilan on April 24th 2002 with a purpose of identifying seismic deficiencies that might impact the general stability of the buildings located within the downtown City. The overall seismic performance goal identified by our team for these buildings is life safety. To achieve this goal, partial collapse of structure and/or of any cladding element that could result in a life safety concern should be prevented during a major earthquake. The largest issue identified is the unreinforced or inadequately reinforced brick masonry construction and those combined with skeletal, particularly buildings …

Systems Engineering And Project Management In Architectural Design And Construction At Postwar Countries, Lulzim Beqiri

UBT International Conference

This paper presents the relation and involvement of project management and systems engineering in construction projects implemented in post was countries. The process of design, construction and investment in creating an architectural structure in Kosova hasn’t applied elements of systems engineering. The design and construction from the investor’s perspective are yet being developed individually. This paper aims to bring the model of project management and systems engineering based on case study experience in order to introduce the modern approach to the design and construction and facilitate the implementation of any construction project. Furthermore this model was designed based on best …

Seismic Hazard Assessment In Banja Hpp Project Area And The Urban Surroundings, Megi Rusi

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The Banjë Hydropower project area, located some 100 km south of Tirana, includes the middle reaches of Devoll Valley close to the village of Banjë (Elbasan district). HPP “Banja” is the lowermost stage of that will be constructed in Devoll river and it is a middle-head scheme with an annual storage capacity for peaking energy production. Closely related to the complicated tectonic pattern of the Dinarides-Albanides-Hellenides mountain range, Albania is one of the most tectonically active countries in Europe. For this purpose an assessment of the seismicity of the project area in general and the dam locations in particular has …

Synergic Spaces - Mosque, Banush Shyqeriu

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The congregation Mosque, Mesjid (from Arabic, sujud = prostration) is one of the most important institutions of Muslim world also the predominant architectonic built form of Muslim architecture.The initial aim of this paper is to scrutinize the Mosque as an institution and architectonic space through generative concepts, principles and criteria derived from the eternal idea of the Mosque as a Synergic Space: A place for Worship, a place of Education and a Community centre. By finding a Generic Mosque from an initial and eternal idea derived out of the main Islamic sources, it is possible to deliberate the discourse on …

Impact Of Collective Residential Building In Environmental Sustainability Of Cities In Region, Ferhat Bejtullahu

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Cities in region haze experienced social disturbances. War, crime and corruption divert resources from areas of greatest human need; damage the capacity of societies to plan for the future, and generally threat human well-being and the environmental sustainability. Sustainability is studied and managed over many scales of time and space and in many contexts of environmental, social and economic organization. The focus of this study is on Environmental Sustainability of Cities in region thru impact of collective residential buildings in neighborhoods, occupations, lifestyles, behavior patterns and so on. Best international approaches and principles will be analyzed and compared with regional …

Sustainable Architecture And Quality Of Place, Arlinda Sheqiri

UBT International Conference

A major part of this challenge is the development for better city-better life and being able to create sustainable architecture solutions through more effective ways to implement in our everyday life process. Strategists, designers and planners are also concerned with combining means and time efficiently. We can see, for example, nearly half of the city in Prishtina has faced wild development or re-development. This has happened as a result of individual construction projects which were undertook without municipal building permits because the pressure to develop was much high than capability of local authority to provide this service. Nevertheless even after …

Territorial Planning Policy For Sustainable Development, Gjergj Thomai

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Urban planning in Albania, has been promoted in various forms of organization and ultimately Territorial Planning Law represents another form of policies on the territory that is closely linked to the decentralization of control of the territory. In Albania more than half of the population lives in urban areas. However, with the exception of Tirana, Albanian cities are generally smaller than cities EU-Balkans region. After massive rural migration, social changes show a new kind of rural Albania.Territorial planning policy for sustainable development requires meeting the challenges posed by changing economic, social and cultural development, and to achieve a balance of …

Contemporary Lightening Methods In Architecture, Vlora Aliu

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Human beings are forced to conceive their life as a practical and conceptual development and in harmony with global technology and trends. As the main necessity in our world right now is the sustainable architecture and alternative and green energy incorporation in every possible way that will impact in energy saving and environmental protection. In this context, today it is more than necessary that ecological friendly energy is a part of architecture philosophy as a crucial part in global energy efficiency. Use of material, the human need for consume and increasing exploitation of natural resources, such as underground and ground …

Managing The Rapid Urban Growth For Cities In Transition Countries, Binak Beqaj, Ylber Limani, Driton R. Kryeziu

UBT International Conference

Through political transition, socio-economical trends of cities as urban areas contributed to huge movements of population from rural to urban areas or from small urban areas toward big urban areas, making them bigger, under the rapid growth. Those cities have faced:

• Overloads with number of citizens,
• Lack of adequate infrastructure and
• Creativity deficiency for drafting and implementing urban development vision.

Consequently, the question is what qualitative life do cities offer when considering abovementioned suppositions related to rapid urban growth?

In general, for cities under rapid development, experts and authorities have not sufficiently succeeded to develop proper methodologies to neutralize chaotically …

Urban Heat Islands(Uhi) Mitigation In Densely Urban City Of Tirana, Albania: Materials, Energy, Comfort, Sokol Dervishi, Eltjona Lacaj, Regina Vathi

UBT International Conference

Heat Island (UHI) is considered as one of the major problems in the 21st century as a result of urbanization and industrialization of human civilization. The urban structures generate a large amount of heat from solar radiations and other sources (i.e. anthropogenic heat). This situation is even worse in cities with high density and large population and extensive economic activities, Tirana, a densely urbanized city, is seriously facing this problem. In this context, the present paper is a review article aiming to present the actual state of the art on the development and the assessment of potential benefits (i.e. materials …

Bioclimatic Architecture Of Residential Building In Kosovo, Mimoza Dugolli

UBT International Conference

The sustained Earth is our chain of the ecological survival. We have over used and over abused every material, every resource and every environmental attributes available for us, trying to find quick and easy solution to the problem. The general concern of modern word today is focused on creating the modern and clean living environment for its inhabitants. Kosovo, which is the newest state in the world, has a long road ahead to achieve the standards in order to create a healthy environment for its residents. A fast economic growth versus low possibility of energy production has caused concerns on …

3 Mont - System For Energy Saving In Building, Driton R. Kryeziu, Bojan Bratuž, Alojz Nastran, Binak Beqaj

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One of the main goals of the European Union is to reduce energy consumption and to increase energy efficiency on buildings. More than 40 % of prime energy in EU is consumed in buildings. Because of that EU has introduced legislation to ensure that they consume less energy. The key part of this legislation is energy performance of buildings directive, EPBD. EPBD requires from all EU countries to enhance their building regulations and to introduce energy certification schemes for buildings. Just through windows and doors, which are part of the exterior wall of a building, we can lose more than …

Quality Development And Organizational Renovation At Construction Companies, Esat Gashi

UBT International Conference

Today, companies working in construction engineering field are facing with the process of quality development. We believe that only the companies which will implement interchanges of organisational renovation or reengineering from the quality viewpoint will be able to offer holistic quality answers to the customer‘s needs and their preferences. For that reason it is important that company retains its ability of ongoing monitoring of organizational model of viewpoints of quality management in order to:

• Realize, how responsible the company controls and operates its relations with quality according to its competitors,
• Identify, which components of organisational model of quality management are …

Tirana Urban Growth During The Last Decade, Arbi Shehu

UBT International Conference

After the 90s Tirana encountered a large increase of the population coming from different towns and villages of the country. In this way the population of 150 thousand inhabitants turned in approximately 1 million. Its major transformation has occurred in the last decade where beside the residents, a lot of settlements and socio-economic buildings have been constructed, bringing in this way an unplanned urban development. To identify Tirana urban growth, in addition to terrain identification or partial urban studies more easily we canuse satellite images provided by Google Maps, which through their electronic archive provide us images over the years. …

Techniques And Methods Of Spatial Data Creation For National Address System In Albania, Arbi Shehu

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The creation of the National Address System in Albania has passed several crucial stages which are characterized in several groups from which it worth mention the creation of legal base, collection of data, the creation of spatial data, GIS application and geodatabase construction, etc. The main part of this process is characterized by the creation of the spatial data through digital techniques and methods. These techniques were implemented through the use of AutoCAD Map and ArcGIS software, using a specific methodology for this process. In this paper it is involved the process of digitizing from orthophotos, identifying streets, buildings and …

Nature In Architecture - Japan Architecture, Lessons For Kosovo, Arta Jakupi

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Focus of my research is to be found on several issues concerning architectural opinions and design in Japan, and for better understanding of its development the attention will be set from the old toward the current architectural endeavors. The created urban mess of Kosovo, beside it’s over built and overcrowded area lack s the most valuable quality of a living settlement- its greenery. The suffocation of the living area can be reduced by producing; inventing; reusing more greenery, more gardens with its calming and meditative effect. The research study reveals a solution; hidden on the inclusiveness of nature into the …

Experimental Comparison Of Deflection Results For Beams Of Self-Compacted Concrete (Scc) And Conventional Concrete Period T=40 Days, Hajdar E. Sadiku, Hatim Ejupi, Lulzim Bytiqi, Berim Osmanaj

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Concrete is a material which has wide usage in engineering especially in construction engineering and road infrastructure facilities. Development trends for high rise constructions, modern skyscrapers indicate that building such constructions with normal concretes and low consistency is impossible, therefore there is a need for concrete with high processes because of great amount of steel in cross section of concrete elements, solution for such construction is self-compacted concrete because of ability to fill pores without compaction and vibration. Considering this fact, researches for deflections, mechanical characteristics of concrete and deformations have been conducted worldwide. In this line, we conducted an …