Research at KTU FCEA

At KTU’s Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture (FCEA), technology and humanities research is developed, which is carried out by about 100 educators and researchers. The integration of science and business has been developed at the faculty – business is given the opportunity to use the most advanced technological solutions and services provided. 3 scientific groups are active in the faculty, we have 2 internal centers (Centre for Smart Cities and Infrastructure (CSCI) and Building Materials and Structures Research Centre) that actively contribute to scientific activities. Doctoral students also actively contribute to faculty research projects.

Every year, the faculty holds a student scientific conference “Smart Build Environment”, and every few years an international scientific conference is held to present both construction engineering and architectural scientific research.

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Contacts

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aušra Mlinkauskienė

Vice-Dean for Research

Studentų g. 48, Kaunas

All Conacts

Research Groups

Research projects

International projects

Project	Beginning	End
Circular REDesign for a Resource-efficient, Innovative, and Transformative Built Environment (CRedIBlE)	2025-10-01	2029-09-30
Connecting Critical Pedagogies, Inclusive Art Forms and Alternative Barometers for Urban Sustainability (CIRCUL’ARTs)	2024-10-18	2028-10-17
Digital based bio-waste derived meta-PANels Towards A REvolutionary building Identity (PANTAREI)	2026-04-01	2028-09-30
GreenInCities	2024-01-01	2027-12-31
Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment (CircularB)	2022-10-27	2026-10-26
European network for Fostering Large-scale Implementation of Energy Geostructure (FOLIAGE)	2022-09-15	2026-09-14
Transforming waste into high-performance 3D printable cementitious composite (TRANSITION)	2023-09-01	2026-08-31
Heritage in Depopulated European Areas (HerInDep)	2023-04-01	2026-03-31
Building Performance Digitalisation and Dynamic Logbooks for Future Value-Driven Services (CHRONICLE)	2022-07-01	2025-12-31
Modular energy islands for sustainability and resilience (MODENERLANDS)	2021-10-11	2025-10-10
Boosting Research for a Smart and Carbon Neutral Built Environment with Digital Twins (SmartWins)	2022-10-01	2025-09-30
Multi-Country Support to advanced Building Decarbonization (TSIC-RoC-19044)	2023-10-27	2025-06-27
Development of Utilities Management Platform for the case of Quarantine and Lockdown – eUMaP	2021-01-01	2024-12-31
Development of a less polluting, automated facade system integrated into building management systems	2021-07-16	2024-04-30
BUILD UP Skills Lithuania – rebooting the National Construction Platform and Roadmap (LIFE21-CET-BUILDSKILLS-REBOOT-SKILLS-LT)	2022-09-01	2024-02-29
Solutions to reduce aggressive ions SO42- and Cl- during transport in Portland cement concrete with steel reinforcement in hydraulic structures (MARCOCN)	2022-01-03	2023-12-31
Research network for including geothermal technologies into decarbonized heating and cooling grids	2019-12-17	2023-10-14
A novel decentralized edge-enabled PREsCriptivE and ProacTive framework for increased energy efficiency and well-being in residential buildings (PRECEPT)	2020-10-01	2023-09-30
GENIUS LOCI: urbanization and civil society	2020-09-24	2023-09-23
Next-generation Dynamic Digital EPCs for Enhanced Quality and User Awareness (D^2EPC)	2020-09-01	2023-08-31
Digital Twins for Energy Optimization	2022-05-26	2023-05-25
Advanced Engineering and Research of (aero)Gels for Environment and Life Sciences	2019-04-30	2023-04-29
Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City	2019-03-28	2023-03-14
Up-to-date Information Systems in Urban Regeneration (UISUR)	2020-01-02	2022-12-31
BOOstinG Innovation and Entrepreneurship through European Universities – BOOGIE-U	2021-07-15	2022-12-31
Ammonia and Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Animal Production Buildings	2019-01-22	2021-11-02
Indoor living space improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly	2017-10-24	2021-10-23
Self-Healing as Preventive Repair of Concrete Structures	2016-09-30	2020-09-29
European Cooperation for Statistics of Network Data Science (COSTNET)	2016-05-11	2020-05-10
Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings	2015-05-06	2019-05-05
Understanding Wood Modification through an Integrated Scientific and Environmental Impact Approach (ModWoodLife)	2015-03-10	2019-03-09
European Network for Shallow Geothermal Energy Applications in Buildings and Infrastructures (GABI)	2015-03-09	2019-03-08

National projects

Project	Beginning	End
Sustainability in Construction through Integrated Digital Tools (SUSTAINOVATE)	2025-11-03	2028-10-31
Development of innovative concretes and composite sound barriers using dispersed e-waste and crushed polystyrene pellets	2024-10-01	2027-04-01
20th century Lithuanian diaspora archCulture Metavisata (LtDI Metavisata)	2024-10-21	2026-04-30
Development of tools for increasing the efficiency of the life cycle processes of public sector structures using information modeling of a building (BIM-LT)	2019-01-10	2023-08-31
Formation processes parameters of the pore structure for alkali-activated cement concrete with predicted properties	2022-09-05	2022-12-31
Shard of glass, obtained from municipal waste stream, utilization in ultra high performance concrete	2020-09-01	2022-08-31
Tailored porosity lightweight alkali activated binder based on red clay	2020-09-01	2022-08-31
Composition products of sprayed concrete with local raw materials	2019-01-03	2022-07-30
Development of self-compacting modified soil technology and R&D	2019-02-21	2022-02-20
The Utilization of Industrial Waste in Alkali-activated Concrete (AKBET)	2017-11-09	2020-09-30
Modernisation of Cities in Lithuania in 1960-1990 and Complex Investigation of Its Influence on Urbanism as Social-Spatial Phenomena (Miesto DNR)	2017-03-31	2019-12-31
CPTED for Safer Society (CPTED)	2017-04-01	2018-06-30
Applying artificial intelligence and system learning to smart cities	2017-11-27	2018-03-19

Institutional projects

Project	Beginning	End
Possibility Evaluation of Sustainable Modernisation and Energy Supply for City Block Using Digital Twin (E-modernizacija)	2021-04-01	2021-12-31
Application of Digital Built Environment Model in Structure’s Energy Efficiency Modelling (Energija 3D)	2020-04-06	2020-12-31
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Predicting Urban Mobility and Territory Segmentation (UrbMob)	2019-04-01	2019-12-31
Conceptual Methodology for Heritage Value Reification to social economic Benefits (APSENIM)	2018-04-03	2018-12-31

Science Projects

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Scientific journal

Journal Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering

In 2012, the first issue of the scientific journal Journal Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering was published at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture of KTU. The magazine is interdisciplinary, the articles analyze aspects of sustainability in the context of architecture, urbanism and construction, building materials and technology, construction, energy and indoor microclimate issues, as well as the currently so relevant environmental and digitization topics. A few years ago, the journal was included in the Scopus database.

According to citation rates, by 2022 the most popular articles were:

Kalle Kuusk, Ahmed Kaiser, Nicola Lolli, Jan Johansson, Tero Hasu, Anne Gunnarshaug Lien, Endrik Arumägi, Kristo Kalbe, Jaanus Hallik, Jarek Kurnitski, Targo Kalamees. Energy Performance, Indoor Air Quality and Comfort in New Nearly Zero Energy Day-care Centres in Northern Climatic Conditions. (2019) Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering, 24 (1), pp. 7-16.
Oludolapo Olanrewaju, Sunday Ajiboye Babarinde, Comfort Salihu. Current State of Building Information Modelling in the Nigerian Construction Industry. (2020) Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering, 27 (2), pp. 63-77.
Delphine Bard, Nikolas Georgios Vardaxis, Elin Sondergard. Acoustic Comfort Investigation in Residential Timber Buildings in Sweden. (2019) Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering, 24 (1), pp. 78-89.

The journal is open access, so those who want to get acquainted with the journal issues and published articles can do so here: sace.ktu.lt

Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering

Website

Science events

Past:

6th Baltic Conference of Young Researchers in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and Civil Engineering

International Spring School on Urban Digital Twins

Smart Build Environment

6th Baltic Conference of Young Researchers in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and Civil Engineering

Website

2025 PhD Spring School on Urban Digital Twins

2025 Brokerage event: Digital Pathways to Sustainability: 2025-2026 Calls – Smart Cities and AI

2025 Building Digital Twin Scientific Conference

2024 Student scientific conference “Smart Built Environment”

2023 Student scientific conference “Smart Built Environment”

2022 Student scientific conference “Smart Built Environment”

2022 3rd Baltic Conference of Young Researchers in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and Civil Engineering Doctoral students‘ scientific conference

2021 Student scientific conference “Smart Built Environment”

2020 Advanced Construction and Architecture 2020

2020 Student scientific conference “Construction and Architecture”

Significant publications

Doctoral studies

Civil Engineering

Architecture

History and theory of arts (architecture)

Dissertations

Below is the list of doctoral dissertations defended in the last three years by the young scientists working at the Faculty:

Author	Research area	Date	Research tutor	Name of Dissertation
Gintautas Tamošaitis	02T	2026-04-30	Danutė Vaičiukynienė	Šarmu aktyvuotų dugno pelenų kompozito struktūros ir savybių tyrimas
Paulius Spūdys	02T	2025-05-16	Paris Fokaides	Integrated building sustainability assessment using digital twin framework
Karolina Butkutė	02T	2025-05-08	Vitoldas Vaitkevičius	Development and properties investigation of 3D printing mixtures for reducing carbon dioxide emissions
Paulius Kavaliauskas	02T	2024-05-08	Jurelionis A.	Utilization of photogrammetry and laser scanning technologies for automated monitoring of the progress of construction works
Deividas Martinavičius	02T	2022-05-16	Augonis M.	Research of local buckling behaviour of composite thin-walled steel-concrete structures
Ignacio Villalón Fornés	02T	2022 01 07	Vaičiukynienė D.	The Improvement of the Main Properties of Phosphogypsum Binding Material by using the Casting and the Press-forming Processing methods
Marius Ivaškevičius	03H	2021 12 17	Zaleckis K.	Influence Of Urban Shape (As Memory) On Social Capital
Ingrida Povilaitienė	03H	2021 07 02	Kamičaitytė J.	Assessment and Modelling of the Identity of Cityscape
Tadas Lisauskas	02T	2021 04 27	Augonis M.	Research of CFRP Strengthened Flexural Reinforced Concrete Beams
Erika Zaleskienė	03H	2019 09 26	Gražulevičiūtė-Vileniškė I.	Research and Integrated management of rural-urban Interface Landscapes (case of Lithuania)
Vytautas Bocullo	02T	2019 08 27	Vaičiukynienė D.	Research of Structure and Properties of Geopolymer Concrete from Industrial Waste
Laura Stasiulienė	02T	2018 06 19	Jurelionis A.	Combined impacts of indoor climate systems in buildings on occupant inhaled volatile organic compounds concentration
Tadas Zingaila	02T	2018 06 18	Augonis M.	The investigation of mechanical properties of flexural reinforced concrete composite members with ultra-high performance concrete layer
Eglė Klumbytė	02T	2018 05 31	Bliūdžius R.	Development and application of municipal residential buildings facilities management model

Doctoral students

DOCTORAL STUDENT	RESEARCH GROUP	SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISOR	FIELD OF SCIENCE
Balvočienė Vaiva	Cultural and Spatial Environment	ZALECKIS Kęstutis	History and theory of arts
Bandarwadkar Sandeep	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	ŽDANKUS Tadas	Civil Engineering
Bhatoo Poorun Kumar	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	JURELIONIS Andrius	Civil Engineering
Džiaugys Arnas	Cultural and Spatial Environment	MLINKAUSKIENĖ Aušra;PRIKOCKIS Gintaras	Architecture
Januškienė Eglė	Cultural and Spatial Environment	Kamičaitytė Jūratė	History and theory of arts
Kavaliauskienė Fausta	Building Materials, Structures and Technologies	VAITKEVIČIUS Vitoldas	Civil Engineering
Liočaitė-Raubickienė Monika	Cultural and Spatial Environment	GRAŽULEVIČIŪTĖ-VILENIŠKĖ Indrė;BALČYTIS Gintaras	Architecture
Manhanga Fallon Clare	Building Materials, Structures and Technologies	RUDŽIONIS Žymantas	Civil Engineering
Mihyawi Russul Saad Znad	Cultural and Spatial Environment	Kamičaitytė Jūratė	History and theory of arts
Mikulėnas Manvydas	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	ŠEDUIKYTĖ Lina	Civil Engineering
Mockutė Renata	Cultural and Spatial Environment	PRIKOCKIS Gintaras;MLINKAUSKIENĖ Aušra	Architecture
Morkūnaitė Lina	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	PUPEIKIS Darius	Civil Engineering
Okrzesik Magdalena	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	Fokaides Paris	Civil Engineering
Osadcha Iryna	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	JURELIONIS Andrius	Civil Engineering
Pilipavičius Justas	Building Materials, Structures and Technologies	DAUKŠYS Mindaugas	Civil Engineering
Qammar Shamaima Wafa	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	ŽDANKUS Tadas	Civil Engineering
Rahmani Hossein	Building Materials, Structures and Technologies	AUGONIS Algirdas	Civil Engineering
Raudonikytė Indraja	Cultural and Spatial Environment	GRAŽULEVIČIŪTĖ-VILENIŠKĖ Indrė	History and theory of arts
Statkauskas Martynas	Building Materials, Structures and Technologies	VAIČIUKYNIENĖ Danutė	Civil Engineering
Valionis Tadas	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	PUPEIKIS Darius	Civil Engineering
Vestfal Paulius	Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment	ŠEDUIKYTĖ Lina	Civil Engineering
Vidikas Vitoldas	Building Materials, Structures and Technologies	AUGONIS Algirdas	Civil Engineering
Viliūnas Gediminas	Cultural and Spatial Environment	GRAŽULEVIČIŪTĖ-VILENIŠKĖ Indrė; BERNOTIENĖ Gražina	Architecture
Žmėjauskaitė Diana	Cultural and Spatial Environment	GRAŽULEVIČIŪTĖ-VILENIŠKĖ Indrė	History and theory of arts
Žurinskas Darius	Building Materials, Structures and Technologies	VAIČIUKYNIENĖ Danutė	Civil Engineering

Consultations

From 2022 In March, the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture included informal assessment/counseling of doctoral students in the process of conducting doctoral studies, which aims to reduce the dropout rates of doctoral students, increase the number of doctoral students who defended their defense on time in the department, and also provide more detailed and versatile feedback to the doctoral student, consulting not only with their scientific supervisors but also with other scientists who specialize in areas related to the topics of the dissertations being prepared.

Informal evaluation/consultation is a process in which the doctoral student is provided with collegial feedback about the doctoral research process, selected research methods, research results, and the quality of the presentation. Informal assessment/consultation at the Faculty of Construction and Architecture

Composition of the informal assessment consultation group:

members of the Faculty’s research groups, business representatives, and foreign partners may be included in the informal evaluation process;
the composition of the informal assessment group can be interdisciplinary, including members from different scientific fields or directions;
the composition of the informal evaluation group may change depending on the needs of the doctoral students. Their composition is adjusted by the doctoral students themselves and their scientific supervisors.

Research infrastructure and services

One of the most effective ways to strengthen the integration of science and business is to increase cooperation. We invite you to use the technological solutions developed by our scientists, the database of the best graduates, and other services and offers.

We invite you to use the services of the Building Materials and Structures Research centre, which is accredited by the Lithuanian National Accreditation Bureau to conduct tests of many building materials, products and structures.

Website

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Research at KTU FCEA

Contacts

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aušra Mlinkauskienė

Research Groups

Research projects

International projects

Project

Beginning

End

National projects

Project

Beginning

End

Institutional projects

Project

Beginning

End

Science Projects

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Scientific journal

Journal Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering

Science events

Past:

Significant publications

Doctoral studies

Dissertations

Doctoral students

Consultations

Research infrastructure and services

KTU OPEN ACCESS CENTRE