The course Construction II, refers to the construction design of reinforced concrete buildings. The syllabus consists of a lecture series with an emphasis on the construction of the building envelope. In addition, a micro-studio of architectural and construction design was introduced. Its aim was the application of the technical knowledge acquired through the lectures and the in-depth study of the structure and construction of the building through the design process.
Lecturer: Chryso Heracleous
The course aims to introduce the students to the subject of Building Technology and to highlight the role of building construction in architectural composition.
The teaching is based on a series of lectures and a series of design and computational exercises that aspire to cover a wide range of technical knowledge related to the subject of the course. Emphasis is given to building construction details and energy performance and efficiency of the building envelope.
The lectures include theoretical and design training through the presentation and analysis of construction techniques and computational methods and aim to connect the theoretical knowledge with the built environment construction process.
Classification of building types, functional arrangement and building regulations. Structural study, vertical and horizontal load systems, materials, building, interaction of structural construction and operation. Building design, non-bearing elements (interior walls, ceilings, building shell, external coatings, suspended walls). Energy efficiency, envelope thermal insulation solutions, hygrothermal performance of building envelope. Systems of technical installations, heating, air conditioning, water supply, electricity systems.
Lecturer: Andreas Kyriakidis
This course aims to deepen the theoretical and applied knowledge of students in the object of Environmental Design of Buildings and highlight the role of architectural design, construction, and appropriate technical support in ensuring proper living conditions, minimizing energy consumption, and reducing adverse environmental impacts.
The course covers issues of Bioclimatic Architecture concerning the improvement of total comfort conditions of users – thermal, visual, acoustic comfort, air quality – in the indoor built environment, issues of energy design referring to the minimization of energy consumption of the building envelope (thermal insulation, appropriate technical support systems, monitoring, and energy management systems of buildings) as well as issues of ecological construction regarding the minimization of the ecological footprint (recycling, reuse, embodied energy and CO2 emissions).
Lecturer: Aimilios Michael
The course aims to introduce research tools and methodological approaches for on-site recording and documentation of building units and urban complexes as well as individual structural and morphological building elements and includes methodologies for categorizing, evaluating, and processing recording data.
Goals:
The course provides basic and specialized knowledge of recording and documenting buildings and ensembles using conventional and modern digital methods. It introduces technologies that refer to issues of recording the spatial organization, morphology, and construction of buildings and complexes as well as their 3D representation and documentation in the digital environment. In addition, it refers to the recording and analysis of comfort conditions and energy efficiency of buildings and the recording of external and internal environmental data. More specifically, environmental documentation refers to the recording of operational characteristics and/or the special comfort requirements of buildings and includes the quantitative recording and analysis of parameters determining thermal and visual comfort conditions.
Lecturers: Dr. Odysseas Kontovourkis, Dr. Maria Philokyprou, Dr. Aimilios Michael
This course aims at the implementation of an individual project, which is required for the M.Eng. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The topic of the project is defined by the course instructor in collaboration with the student, and at the end of which the students must present/demonstrate the results of the project. In addition to the project work, presentations are also made on general issues of interest to engineers (e.g., issues of open access, ethics, copyright, project management, product management, etc.), as well as literature review on different areas of interest and presentation of the literature reviews.
The content of the course includes, but is not limited to, the following aspects:
Lecturer: Apostolos Michopoulos
The following courses have been undertaken by the personnel of Energy & Environmental Design of Buildings Research Laboratory (EEDB Lab.) in the past years.
The course covers the analysis and design of heating, cooling and air-conditioning systems, for maintaining comfortable conditions in both commercial and residential buildings. It also discusses the parameters for design and analysis of refrigeration systems on industrial applications
Climatological data; Comfort conditions; Psychrometry; Solar gains; Heating and cooling loads; Heat gains by exterior walls and roofs, Space loads from fenestration, Internal heat gains; Refrigerants; Basic refrigeration cycles; Heating, cooling and air-conditioning systems; Heat pumps; Heating devices; Design of heating, cooling, and air-conditioning systems.
Lecturer: Apostolos Michopoulos (2020-2022)
The holistic design approach of the energy projects and the implementation of the theoretical and practical knowledge that the students gain in their post-graduate studies, under the realistic working conditions.
The Capstone Design and Research Project I includes topics that are related to the interdepartmental character of the Program, as well as topics concerning the collaboration of students in as much as possible real conditions. Students are divided into groups and undertake the design of a project according to predetermined requirements. The work is shared and the knowledge gained by students through the courses offered throughout the program is implemented in conditions of a project design. In this way, students are better prepared to transfer their knowledge into practical applications and gain experience from participating in a larger group where everyone is performing part of the work but at the same time all students work together towards the common objective of the Design Project integration.
Lecturers: Apostolos Michopoulos, Stavroula Thravalou (2018-2023)
The holistic design approach of the energy projects and the implementation of the theoretical and practical knowledge that the students gain in their post-graduate studies, under the realistic working conditions.
The Capstone Design and Research Project I includes topics that are related to the interdepartmental character of the Program, as well as topics concerning the collaboration of students in as much as possible real conditions. Students are divided into groups and undertake the design of a project according to predetermined requirements. The work is shared and the knowledge gained by students through the courses offered throughout the program is implemented in conditions of a project design. In this way, students are better prepared to transfer their knowledge into practical applications and gain experience from participating in a larger group where everyone is performing part of the work but at the same time, all students work together towards the common objective of the Design Project integration.
Lecturers: Apostolos Michopoulos, Stavroula Thravalou (2018-2023)
The holistic design approach of the energy projects and the implementation of the theoretical and practical knowledge that the students gain in their post-graduate studies, under the realistic working conditions.
The Capstone Design and Research Project I includes topics that are related to the interdepartmental character of the Program, as well as topics concerning the collaboration of students in as much as possible real conditions. Students are divided into groups and undertake the design of a project according to predetermined requirements. The work is shared and the knowledge gained by students through the courses offered throughout the program is implemented in conditions of a project design. In this way, students are better prepared to transfer their knowledge into practical applications and gain experience from participating in a larger group where everyone is performing part of the work but at the same time, all students work together towards the common objective of the Design Project integration.
Lecturers: Apostolos Michopoulos, Stavroula Thravalou (2018-2023)
The aim of the course is to introduce the post-graduate student of the Facility of Engineering to a critical approach to scientific issues and the role of research, to develop communication and presentation skills of a scientific work, to familiarize with basic research methods including qualitative and quantitative methods, to develop skills in different epistemological approaches to scientific research problems, and to develop skills in social and people-centered approaches to research.
The content of the course includes, but not limited to, the following aspects:
Lecturer: Apostolos Michopoulos (2020-2023)
The aim of the course is to provide adequate knowledge to the students that be able to understand the need for improvement of the energy efficiency of buildings, know the european and cypriot energy policy and legislation, understand the energy flows and balance in a building, calculate the heat flows due to the several factors affecting the building's thermal balance, calculate the energy efficiency of a building compared to a reference building, propose possible suggestions to improve the energy efficiency of a building.
Energy Policy, Legislation, Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation, U-value, Thermal Insulation, Heating systems, AC systems, Ventilation systems, Reference Building, Zoning, Typical uses Energy Efficiency Calculation Methodology, Energy Audit.
Lecturer: Apostolos Michopoulos (2018, 2020-2023)