A new trend in real estate business lately is consideration of energy efficiency as a marketable feature of buildings. The issue is a new research domain, which includes development of new valuation methodologies to quantify the energy efficiency. This paper proposes original methodologies to...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the most dynamic and vital factor of progress in the contemporary society, main generator of economic performance and substance in any country, employment opportunity provider for most of population, major contributor to the national budget, and...

This study develops and analyzes an original methodology for the simulation and prediction of space heating energy consumption in buildings connected to a district heating system, characterized by lack of individual control systems for end-users. The identification of the input parameters is...

The scientific research has been developed in the Doctoral Studies Institute (ISD) of the Academy of Economic Studies (ASE) in Bucharest, being circumscribed both to the Exploratory Research Project – Ideas no 1844/2008-2011, and to the Structural and Operational Project of Human Resources...

One of the vital problems for the existence of mankind is also the protection of the environment, especially if we take into consideration the more intense action of the environmental pollution factors whose intensity and ampleness are more and more present. This was also the reason for which in...

The analyses of the quality cost are very vast. The most frequent met techniques are the analyses of the tendency and the Pareto analyses. The objective of these techniques is to determine the opportunity to improve the quality.

Entrepreneurs do not form a homogeneous set who can be distinguished from non-entrepreneurs on the basis of their personality characteristics. In Romania, the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have a young history of 19 years behind. The present paper aims to outline the profile of the...