The University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy is located in

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. It was founded in 1942 as a Higher Technical School following a decree issued on June 6, 1941 by the Bulgarian

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.University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy - History
/ref> In 1945 it was transformed into a State Polytechnic. In 1953 the Polytechnic was divided into several institutes one of them being the Institute of Civil Engineering. Since 1977 the institute is renamed Higher Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering (HIACE). In 1990 by a decision of its General Assembly the Institute was renamed University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), the official accreditation being voted by the Parliament on 21 July 1995. On 15.11.2001 received institutional accreditation.

Faculties and departments

* Faculty of

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

* Faculty of Geodesy * Faculty of Hydrotechnics * Faculty of

Structural engineering Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man-made structures. Structural engineers also must understand and cal ...

* Faculty of

Transportation engineering Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for t ...

* Department of applied linguistics and physical culture

Rectors

Higher Technical School

*1942–1944: Yurdan Danchov *1944–1945:

Stancho Belkovski Stancho Belkovski ( bg, Станчо Белковски) (1891–1962), was a Bulgarian architect. Belkovski is among the prominent names in the history of the Bulgarian architecture from the beginning and the middle of the 20th century. Some of ...

State Polytechnic

*1945–1946; Vasil Peevski *1946–1947: Aleksi Kvartirnikov *1947–1948: Georgi Bradistilov *1948–1951: Aleksi Kvartirnikov *1951–1953: Sazdo Ivanov

References

External links

The official website of UACEG
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