Petr Hajek is Professor of Civil Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering. Currently he is Vice Dean for Research, Head of Department of Building Structures and Head of the research programme Architecture and Environment at University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings. He is an expert in sustainable construction of buildings, complex assessment and rating of building performance quality, LCA, optimization of concrete structures and use of recycled materials.
P. Hajek is a member of the CEN TC 350 committee and head of team responsible for implementation and translation of CEN 350 Standards into Czech Republic. He is a deputy head of fib (International Federation for Structural Concrete) Commission 3 – Environmental Aspects in Design and Construction of Concrete Structures and a convener of fib C3 TG C3.7 – Integrated life cycle assessment of concrete structures. Since 2005 he is a board member of iiSBE – International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment and chairman of CSBS iiSBE Czech – Czech Sustainable Building Society. He is an Editor-in-Chief of journal Beton TKS (Concrete – Technology, Construction, Reconstruction) and board member of Czech Concrete Society.
P. Hajek has been a head of 11 research projects and co-researcher of 16 other research projects. He has been a member of international research teams in European projects SUREURO – Sustainable Refurbishment of Europe (FP5), LEnSE – Methodology Development towards a Label for Environmental Social and Economic Buildings (FP6), PERFECTION – Performance Indicators for Health, Comfort and Safety of the Indoor Environment (FP7), SuPerBuildings – Sustainability and performance assessment and benchmarking of buildings (FP7) and currently EURL3A – European Real Life Learning Lab and many other national research projects. P. Hajek has published more than 130 research-based publications.
