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Ingrid Juhásová Šenitková1 1 Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Department of Civil Engineering, Okružní 517/10, 370 01 České Budějovice, Czech RepublicInfobuildingdefects@gmail.com Preface We are pleased to welcome you to the conference proceedings of the 11th Anniversary International Scientific Conference on Building Defects (Building Defects 2019) held on 28th – 29th November 2019 at the Institute of Technology and Business (ITB) in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Conference is organized on behalf of His Magnificence prof. Marek Vochozka, MSc., MBA., Ph.D., rector of the Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice and under the honorary patronage of the Czech Chamber of Certified Engineers and Technicians (CKAIT).The current conference is the eleventh continuous of Building Defects conferences, which solves especially the causes of defects during the building processes and afterwards defects of the building themselves as well as the defect of building structures. The conference is the premiere chance for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of the civil engineering. The main aim of the conference is to the present the scientific research results and its practical solutions in the field of civil engineering, taking into account the principles of sustainable development as well as to present contemporary civil engineering issues and its future development.It is our pleasure to announce the participation of expert speakers from various universities and research institutes in this two-day event. A lot of thanks are given to all authors of submitted papers for their participation. They contributed a great deal of effort and creativity to produce this work. We are happy they choose the 11th Anniversary International Scientific Conference on Building Defects to present to their excellent work. Thanks also to all editors and reviewers, who donated substantial time from their busy schedules to carefully read and evaluate the submitted scientific papers.The conference proceedings contain 20 papers. Each contributed paper was rigorously reviewed by two anonymous reviewers who were drawn mainly from the International Scientific Committee. At last but not at least, we would like to appreciate to all supporting organizations for their support and encouragement and got making the event a success. In addition, I would like to thank also to Organizing Committee for their great preparing work. We are looking forward to the next 12th International Conference Building Defects 2020 that will be held next year on November at the same location. We hope that it will be interesting and enjoying at least as all of its eleventh predecessors.prof. Ingrid Juhásová Šenitková, MSc., CSc.Conference GuaranteeITB in České Budějovice