Research areas

The subjects of research projects conducted by the Faculty staff concern important and up-to-date problems of construction, engineering, and shaping of the environment, contributing new elements in theoretical terms as well as aiming at the development and implementation of new technologies in industry.

The testimony to the Faculty’s high standards in the area of scientific and research activity is the scientific category A, awarded to it as a result of the last parametric evaluation of the unit’s operation in the years 2013-2016.

The tangible results of the Faculty’s research work include employee promotions and their obtainment of consecutive degrees and titles, as well as numerous patents, implementation of research results and their applications in industry, as well as scientific publications and participation in national and international conferences.

The directions of the Faculty employees’ research reflect the priorities of the activities contained in the “Strategy of socio-economic development of Eastern Poland until 2020”, the “National Development Strategy 2020”, the “Dynamic Poland 2020” Innovation and Economy Efficiency Strategy, the Sustainable Development Strategy for Poland 2025 and the “Regional Innovation Strategy for the Podlaskie Voivodeship”.

The research areas pursued at the Faculty include the following issues:

• Analyzes of problems in the field of forest sciences
• Shaping road infrastructure elements in terms of their durability, traffic safety, environmental protection, and costs of execution;
• Innovative technologies for thickening, combustion, gasification, and processing of agri-food materials;
• Shaping the properties of construction materials;
• The identity of Podlasie’s landscape;
• Secondary metabolites as natural vegetal substances – their pharmaceutical properties as well as application and implementation in drug production;
• Protection of the bio- and geodiversity resources and landscape of north-eastern Poland; 
• Theoretical and experimental modelling of structural components’ and systems’ performance;
• Research into the application of selected materials, organic and mineral preparations in biotechnology, environmental engineering, construction, and food technology;
• Multidimensional analyses in the field of interaction and stage analyses of the mechanics of civil engineering structures;
• Evaluation of physical and mechanical parameters of soils in terms of their grain size and compaction;
• Methods of determining individual costs of heating in multi-family buildings;
• Innovative technical and technological solutions in the area of municipal services management;
• Influence of selected environmental pollutants on the functioning of living organisms/biological systems;
• Studies of microclimate and related physical phenomena;
• Mathematical modelling of heat transfer processes in building partitions and optimisation of the parameters of their components in terms of energy efficiency and shaping buildings’ internal environment;
• Analyses of selected problems in the fields of civil engineering and spatial management;
• Frictional states of crushed media;
• Innovative technologies for wastewater and water treatment as well as waste treatment;
• Experimental research and numerical simulation of heat and mass exchange phenomena occurring in heat engineering, heat distribution technologies, and ventilation, as well as evaluation of the quality of outdoor and indoor air.

The Faculty conducts extensive international scientific and research cooperation with numerous universities from countries including Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, Austria, Kazakhstan, Spain, Portugal, Georgia, the USA, and China.

The cooperation involves research, joint publications, and employee trips.

Keywords/tags:

Road infrastructure, construction materials, agri-food materials, biodiversity of species, civil engineering structures, municipal services management, microclimate, heat exchange, water and wastewater treatment, waste management, water and sewage systems

Scientific disciplines for which the Faculty would like to gain partners:

• civil engineering and transport,
• environmental engineering, mining, and power engineering,
• forest science.