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Andreas Savvides is a member of the faculty in the School of Engineering at the University of Cyprus (UCy) and he is a registered architect and city planner. He studied in California and Massachusetts and in the past he had practiced as part of interdisciplinary design teams working on institutional projects in the United States (New England region). He has also served as one of the education directors at the Boston Architectural Center (BAC) where he taught, amongst others, design studios and workshops in interdisciplinary design and integrated project delivery. At UCy, and within the Energy and Environmental Design of Buildings (EEDB) research laboratory,  he runs the Network for Urban and Transit Studies (nuts@ucy). His research interests are in sustainable development practices leading to the densification and regeneration of underperforming and underutilized urban cores. He looks at both the environmental and the cultural factors pertaining to sustainable urban design, oftentimes with a focus on socially-minded housing and transit oriented development.