Coal resources, beside oil, gas and uranium as nonrenewable source of energy, represent the most significant part of energy potential of Republic of Srpska and energy source of strategic importance.Modern pace of technological and industrial development conditions constant increase of coal exploitation and consumption. Usage of this resource must b...

By Boško Vuković

The railway Šamac - Sarajevo was built in the fifties of the twentieth century, as a significant part of the railway that connects the central part of the former Yugoslavia with the Sava River. Later, in the seventies another track of Doboj and Zenica was built what was the most important by that time. In general the railway is situated on the corr...

By Neđo Đurić, Alisa Babajić, Dijana Đurić, Dado Srkalović, Milan Perišić

Conflicts are one of the most frequent factors that undermine success of construction projects. Therefore, it is important to recognize and predict the most probable causes of disputes that might arise during the project completion in order to make adequate plans and prepare procedures for their prevention and management. This paper provides compar...

By M. Elmabrok Elmagdobi, Nikola Čulić, Dejan Beljaković, Aleksandar Milajić, Goran Pejičić

Building with earth is widespread and still mostly based on traditional experiences. Increasing demands in energy consumption reduction during the construction and exploitation of buildings put more and more in the focus the good features of houses built with earth.Testing of earth mixtures with other natural materials showed that it can get even a...

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

Construction of the silica material factory named "R-S Silicon", with an annual production capacity of 15,210 ton of Si-metal, was planned in the village of Bjelajce, municipality of Mrkonjić Grad. The factory for production of Si-metal shall have direct and indirect environmental impacts, especially on waters, by washing off working areas, leachat...

By Dušica Pešević, Nebojša Knežević

During the working of thermal power plants, due to technological process of coal combustion, waste matter, which takes up large areas of land, degrades and pollutes the environment, is created. In the last years, a significant progress has been made in the world in researching new technologies that implement technogenic materials which have wide ra...

By Ljiljana Crnogorac, Boško Vuković

The risk assessment is based on the systematic recording and evaluation of all factors in the work process, the possible dangers and hazards in the workplace and in the working environment that may cause occupational injury, damage to health or illness of the employee. Risk assessment focus is on work organization, work processes, tools, raw mater...

By Nebojša Knežević

In the rock salt deposit "Tetima" by analysis of situation and pore (layers) pressures and fracturing pressures development it has been proved that the values of pore and fracturing pressures are quite low (in the part of deposit which is currently exploited) and on the border of use salt water such as fluid for canal rinse in some drilling interva...

By Sanel Nuhanović, Adnan Hodžić, Almir Šabović

Construction schedule becomes part of positive practice of our construction. The construction of Building and Residential Complex Stepa Stepanovic has been used for conducting research among responsible contractors on certain aspects of schedule execution, problems during its executions and use in construction process. The results of the research s...

By Danijela Stanojlović

In the present work, the abilities of natural and synthetic samples of goethite and hematite to remove copper Cu(II) ) and zinc Zn(II) ions from aqueous solutions were compared. Batch adsorption experiments were performed in order to evaluate the removal efficiency of iron oxide samples. The effect of initial metal ion concentration, initial pH and...

By Alexandra Bekényiová, Iveta Štyriaková, Zuzana Danková