Dear readers,

e-ZBORNIK is an electronic journal of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy of the University of Mostar.

This is the 28th issue of our Journal which contains papers in Croatian and English with topics related to the contribution of the research of Mostar miljevina with special reference to frost resistance, environmental footprints caused by the operation of open-pit mines and the possibility of multifunctional use of the occupied space, defining the optimal distance between technological sequences during tunnel excavation in poor rock mass, the Infantry Barracks from 1889 and the competition for a secondary city center at French Republic Square from 1977 - roles in the urban development of the western part of Zagreb and analysis of the burned area in Grebaštica using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and vegetation indices.

The journal under the following data ISSN 2232-9080 (online edition) and DOI: 10.47960/2232-9080 can be found in the databases EBSCO, Hrčak (https://hrcak.srce.hr/e-zbornik), DOI (CrossRef) and DOAJ (The Directory of Open Access Journals), and activities necessary for its inclusion in other databases are in progress.

Publishing rights, as well as those related to independent storage of texts, apply as described on the network of the Sherpa organization (RoMEO service), which is maintained at the University of Nottingham.

Our journal is open access, and its content as well as the publication of papers for the authors are completely free of charge.

Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal, without asking permission from the publisher or the author, but with attribution in accordance with the Creative Commons (CC) license.

All received papers are reviewed by a double blind peer review and new papers are published twice a year in June and December.

As the editor in chief of the 28th issue of the e-ZBORNIK, I would like to thank the authors for the submitted papers as well as the reviewers and members of the editorial board for successful cooperation during the realization of this issue, and at the same time I want to invite the authors to submit papers for the 29th issue of our journal.

The scientific and professional papers in the fields of construction, architecture and urbanism, geodesy, environmental protection, and related topics and areas are submitted by filling out the form on the e-ZBORNIK website via the link https://e-zbornik.gf.sum.ba/en/paper-submission.

Yours faithfully,

Ana Bošnjak, PhD