AREAS OF OPERATION
Land Management
Spatial Planning
- development strategies for municipalities,
- studies of conditions and directions in spatial planning of gminas,
- local spatial plans with forecasting of the plan's decisions impact effects on natural environment,
- forecasting of the financial effects of spatial plans.
Environmental Protection
- environmental impact assessment,
- protection plans of natural reserves (national parks, landscape parks)
- environmental protection programmes for municipalities and regions, with waste management projects,
Municipal Economy
Water Supply and Sewage Disposal
- drinking-water basin protection zone projects
- water use permit studies
- diagnostic studies of sewer systems
- measurement systems for open sewers
Transportation
- transportation studies for spatial planning
- traffic and network simulation studies for transportation management
Housing
Housing Economy
- housing strategies and policies at the national, regional and local levels
- housing-stock economy and management
- housing monitoring
- social problems of housing
Residential Building
- organisation and financing of residential building
- operation of the building law and public procurement systems
Real Estate Market
- real-estate market
- residential land management in municipalities
Laboratory Tests
- laboratory testing of water and air quality
- soil pollution testing
- evaluation of waste hazard
- noise level measurements
RESEARCH AREAS
- evaluation of the municipal space quality
- methods, techniques and operating tools for urban planning
- land management and spatial planning in shaping of urban sustainable development
- urban process monitoring
- organisation and tools for effective city management
- privatisation of municipal property and utilities
- public-private partnership
- environmental protection and the related projects
- real-estate market as a component of local and macro-economy
- municipal regeneration
- transfer and application of European experience
- application of advanced and specialised computer techniques
DISSEMINATION OF EXPERTISE
- training
- conferences
- publications