Level of construction industry in the Czech Republic, Austria, and the EU

This diploma thesis deals with strategic analysis of construction environment in the Czech Republic, Austria and the European Union. It focuses on suggestions of strategies for the Czech businesses based on deep assessment and comparison of level of industry environments in selected areas. Evaluation of the sector is provided from the perspective of factor conditions, demand conditions, strategy, structure and rivalry, and supported and related industries. Based on elaboration of the sectors in selected areas opportunities and threats are determined for building construction forming the background for formulation of strategies and recommendations. Among all, three basic strategies are develop and that is to implement "green" building in form of timber-framed construction, to focus on building of developer projects of residences for elderly to enhance the declining demand for construction works, and lastly to prepare for implementation of Building Information Modeling system, which is new data-based software capable of informing about the whole life-cycle of construction from design to demolition