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Cultural heritage buildings are an important origin of a country's cultural memory, originality, and attractiveness, which motivated cultural growth, economic development, and social employment. However, cultural heritage buildings threaten to decay regarding the contributing poor funding for cultural heritage buildings preservation and maintenance, increasing urbanization changes. The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage buildings is one of the reasons, helping to preserve heritage buildings. This paper submits qualitative and quantitative criteria and subcriteria for the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage buildings. The set of criteria consists of economic, social, environmental, cultural heritage and legal criterion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the most widespread designs of external walls of the multi-storey residential buildings now in use. Such 49 alternative designs of external walls of multi-storey residential buildings are analyzed using multicriteria analysis program under uncertainty. Few ways of the decision are applied for the decision of the problem: the method of distance to an ideal point, Baye's rule and Wald's rule. To project and understand effective construction of a building, it is necessary to execute exhaustive analysis of all decisions (planimetric, prolongation of term and quality of buildings operation, improvement of architectural decisions, etc.). The level of a design of external walls efficiency of multi-storey residential buildings depends on very many factors, including: cost of the construction work, used materials and building mechanisms, aesthetics, properties of service, thermal insulation properties, durability, etc. The offered decision of the choice of the effective decision problem using the system of the criteria having different dimensions takes into account the rational estimation of economic, climatic, social conditions and traditions and also allows better to satisfy architectural, functional, service, comfort and other requirements of the client. It also allows to reduce design, building and operational expenses. The choice of a variant mainly depends on needs and existing financial ability of the customer. The offered system of the effective decision choice using the principles of the multi-criteria analysis is described in the presented paper. There is an opportunity on the basis of the offered system to compare alternative design decisions of external walls of multi-storey residential buildings and the choice of the most effective variants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A number of multicriteria decisions must be made during construction investment processes. A number of support systems for multicriteria tasks of construction investment processes are available. Part of them is reviewed in this article. Effectiveness of the construction investment process is greatly influenced by an appropriate formulation of a construction contract. In order to formulate effective construction contract, multicriteria techniques for evaluation and comparison of the contracts must be created. Beside technical, organisational and economic aspects of construction, legal aspects of a construction contract must be also analysed in order to create such techniques. Therefore legal decision-making systems are also reviewed in the article. A conclusion can be made from the review that decision-making systems for construction contracts are not available currently. One of the main tasks in the creation of multicriteria support systems is the formation of a multicriteria indicator system. In this paper the structure of construction contracts are analysed and a hierarchical model of a construction contract is presented. Construction contracts have to be made evaluated and compared to this model. On the basis of this model, significance of indicators should be determined and a multicriteria decision support system should be created in further research stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]