Email: vsevolod.nikolaiev@pwr.edu.pl

Unit: Faculty of Civil Engineering » Department of Materials and Building Processes Engineering

Vsevolod Nikolaiev is actually working as a professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland. He is the Member of Academy of Construction of Ukraine, European and Asian Real Estate Societies, Chairman of the Board of Digital Construction Association. Over his continuous academic activity V. Nikolaiev published about 200 articles, monographs, textbooks and other issues. Under his supervision 12 PhD students and one doctoral defended their thesis.

 Starting from “Perestroyka” period, V. Nikolaiev paid attention to construction management in transition economy. He established close international relations and participated in different research project teams. His monograph  “Introduction to market economy of construction” (1991) formed the general theoretical basis of life cycle costing and new market relations on micro-, meso- and macrolevel of the sector. The book was reissued in Moscow (1994), Erevan (1997) and Kyiv (2012).  

Certain period V. Nikolaiev combined academic activity with business administration.  In 1996 he got a business position of vice-president for investments in leading national joint-stock company “Ukrainian Financial Group”.  In 2000 he organized a multi-profile consulting corporation “United Consultants”. His practical interests began to be reoriented on investments and financing of construction. His textbook “Financial management of projects and programs” (2010, 2019) formed a basis for new discipline and master program in several universities.

  Last decade of his activity was connected with public governance. He took positions of Councilor to Minister of Regional Development and Construction, to Minister of Economy, to Minister of Communities and Territories Development, combining public functions with research and teaching in Scientific Research Economic Institute, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, National University of State Tax Service, National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.

 The results of his multidiscipline studies were reflected in several books: “Management of public real estate” (2017), “Management of real estate: business processes and methods” (2018) and “Building information modeling in management of life cycle cost of objects” (2018). On this basis, his new course of lectures on real estate management was introduced in higher educational institutions in Ukraine and abroad.   

On international level, in 2016 he conducted Summer school lessons in Politechnika Bari (Italy), in 2019-2022 in University of La Coruna (Spain). Collective monograph “Technical and economic aspects of real estate properties” (2019) and several articles were issued abroad: “Building information modeling for housing renovation - example for Ukraine”; “Institutional models of welfare states and its housing policy”; “Intensification of investments in renovation of residential real estate in the context of the sustainable development goals”; “Different management functions in housing operation practice. Ukrainian case study”, “Management of Owner-Occupied Apartments in Ukraine: A Way to Balance between Landlords and Tenants”, „Rozwój korporacyjnych form zarządzania nieruchomosćiami mieszkalnymi”.    

In 2019-2023 he took part in series of important conferences of European, Asian and American Real Estate Societies presenting papers concerning Ukrainian situation in housing sector, especially as to poor condition of housing stock, uncertain property relations in apartment buildings, need of their renovation, trends in management digitalization.

Working in Poland, he is interested in further improvement of life-cycle cost management in construction and real estate sphere according to international standards. In current situation his plans are connected with assistance in efficient housing renovation in Ukraine.