The articles of the Transsylvania Nostra Journal no. 2/2014 were dedicated to the celebration of Mr. professor engineer PhD. SZABÓ Bálint’s birthday. He is the founder of the UTILITAS company, director of Transsylvania Nostra Foundation and a significant personality in Transylvanian historic building protection as from 1989. The UTILITAS company was founded in 1991 in the field of built heritage, implicated in a series of innovative activities in this domain. The postgraduate studies on historic building conservation within the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, were also launched by him. In this issue of the journal friends, colleagues and former students express their reverence and esteem for Mr. professor and his oeuvre.