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Faculty of Civil engineering and Architecture of University of Nis organize the Fourth International Symposium of Doctoral Studies’ Students in the fields of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Protection “PhIDAC 2012”. The first Symposium of the Doctoral Studies’ Students “PhIDAC 2009”, held in September 2009 in Nis, confirmed the expectations of Prof. Slavisa Trajkovic and Professor emeritus Radomir Folic, the founders of this symposium, that the two-day meetings of the students of Doctoral studies and their professors would be of invaluable use both for young researchers and their tutors. Namely, a great number of published and presented papers, as well as open discussion on the quality of paper, directions in further researches and relationships between doctoral students and tutors demonstrated that the Symposium fulfilled the expectations of the participants and that the organiyation of new meeting should be continued. At the Second Symposium “PhIDAC 2010” the symposium programme was enlaged, i.e. the field of enviromental protection was also introduced as the third thematic field with the expectation that this multidisciplinary area should be more closely introduced to young researches in the fields of civil engineering and architecture. The organizers of the Third Symposium “PhIDAC 2011” have decided the symposium to be international and thus they had opened new possibilities for affirmation and developments of young researches from Serbia, as wel as for their colleagues from the Balkans. There are 90 papers dealing with topics in the fields of civil engineering, architecture and environment protection that have been submitted for the fourth international symposium of students of doctoral studies “PhIDAC 2012”. The papers covered a wide range of scientific topics. All the papers have been reviewed. On the basis of the reviews, it was concluded that the young researchers provided a significant contribution to the development of scientific thinking. We would like to thank all the authors and co-authors of the papers and to their mentors, and it is our wish that the young researchers would continue their successful careers and persist in realization of the goals they have set.