Thermal bridges have significant influence at calculation of the energy performance classes of buildings. This especially applies to countries where energy performance classes of buildings are determined based only on energy consumption for heating (such as Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia...). Significant differences arise in determining th...

By Danilo Vunjak, Arpad Čeh, Neđo Đurić, Golub Karaman, Ivan Hegediš

Public participation in environmental decision-making is nowadays accepted as an integral part of the sustainable development process and an important mean for improving quality, legitimacy and capacity of environmental assessment and decisions. When communities participate in the management of their resources in form of consultation or active invo...

By Mirjana Bartula, Uroš Radojević, Dragana Selmanagić, Erna Zildović, Miloš Nikolić

Improvement of the quality of the route is necessary because of its importance in connecting countries of the Western Balkans to central and western Europe. This is the worst section of the road from Albania via Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the corridor Vc, which passes through the central part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The route of th...

By Neđo Đurić, Andja Djujic

Jablanica gabbro represents the highest quality architectural building stone in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Knowledge of the physical and mechanical characteristics of gabbro is an important prerequisite for the proper usage of this rock material. This paper presents a brief review of the geological characteristics Jablanica gabbro deposit, with distin...

By Kenan Mandžić, Adnan Ibrahimović

The paper present a review of the geotechnical characteristics of the terrain at the location of the bridge No. 3 of motorway Zenica – Sarajevo – Mostar - Bijaća, section Počitelj - Zvirovići.Also, given the suggestion of foundation structures for each column, as well as the calculated bearing capacity....

By Zlatan Talić, Đenari Ćerimagić

Today's building of facilities does not follow the study of the characteristics of the terrain on which the facility is constructed. The period of rapid construction, which can be called the "modern construction" does not follow the quality of constructed facilities. Usually it is the uncontrolled building, where is only important to build a facili...

By Neđo Đurić

In the modern mining, best efficient organization by obtaining solid minerals, is getting with explosives utilization for blasting, with the growth of significance in the exploitation of mineral resources in the open pit mines with large capacities. In this paper technological stages of drilling and blasting, that are demanding from the technologic...

By Vladimir Malbašić, Žarko Kovačević, Miodrag Čelebić, Jovana Crnogorac

During construction, especially of tunnels, very often there is a need to change the tender technical documents, i.e. the documents upon which the construction permit is obtained and the tender is announced. The main reason for the change of documentation is, above all, unsuficient geotechnical investigations due to which technical solutions and ca...

By Dragan Lukić, Stanko Brčić, Elefterija Zlatanović

Spices and herbs have been used for centuries by many cultures to enhance the flavor and aroma of foods. Early cultures also recognized the value of using spices and herbs in preserving foods and for their medicinal value. In the present study the essential oil of wild growing Thymus praecox Opiz ssp. polytrichus was isolated by hydrodistillationpr...

By V. Nada Petrović, S. Slobodan Petrović, Dubravka Jovičić, Marina Francišković

Levels of physicochemical parameters (pH, electrical conductivity, sulphates, chlorides, temperature, turbidity, total hardness, iron, manganese, copper, dissolved oxygen, oxygen saturation, total suspended solid, ammonium nitrogen, total nitrogen and orthophosphates ) were determined in the water samples collected from Pek River at 4 sample sites ...

By V. Nada Petrović, P. Dejan Marković