Preface

Abstract

The International scientific conference “Civil Engineering Design and Construction” (DCB) is the twelfth international conference organized by the Scientific and Technical Union of Civil Engineering in Bulgaria (NTSSB), strongly supported by the Chamber of Engineers in the Investment Design in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Construction Chamber, Federation of the Bulgarian Scientific and Technical Unions, the Varna Free University and “Evrika” Foundation. Special attention was paid to sustainable construction, digitalization in the construction industry and building information modeling (BIM).The conference is held every two years, starting in 2000 as a national conference of the Union of Bulgarian Construction Engineers and the Bulgarian Scientific and Technical Union of Civil Engineering. This conference is of special importance for Bulgaria, where scientists, researchers and experts present their achievements and share their experience or innovative ideas in various fields of design, construction and architecture. Since 2006, the DCB conference has been held as an international scientific forum for in-depth discussions and fruitful meetings.The conference was held in Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”, Bulgaria on September 08-10, 2022. The conference was partially held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The presentations of the participants presented on-site and those of the online participants were screened in the conference halls. The conference was held successfully with Zoom videoconferencing software.List of Scientific Committees are available in this pdf.