The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) of the University of Cyprus (UCY) offers graduate degree programs in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Construction and Transport Infrastructure Management (CTIM), at both the Master's (M.Eng., M.Sc.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) levels.
The CTIM graduate program covers the most current theories and practices needed by the construction & transport engineering and management professional. It is taught by faculty and industry professionals who hold particular prominence in their respective fields, and is complemented by knowledge infusions from visiting scholars. CTIM programs utilize case-based learning and are ideal for engineers, construction and transportation professionals.
Further to the postgraduate academic programs, the CTIM group is actively involved in theoretical and applied research pertaining to construction and transportation engineering and management. Said research work is performed at CTIM's two operated laboratories, the EUPALINOS - Construction Engineering and Water Distribution Networks Management Laboratory and the Lab for Transport Engineering (LTE), directed by Dr. Symeon Christodoulou and Dr. Loukas Dimitriou, respectively.
The University of Cyprus's CTIM group is co-managed by Dr. Symeon Christodoulou and Dr. Loukas Dimitriou, proud owners of the "
EUPALINOS - Construction Engineering & Water Distribution Networks Management Laboratory"
and of the "
Lab for Transport Engineering (LTE)".
Dr. Symeon Christodoulou, Head of the construction management group, and Dr. Loukas Dimitriou, Head of the transportation engineering group, are prominent researchers and academics in their respective fields, recipients of several academic and research awards, national representatives to international committees, authors of numerous publications and reviewers for over 100 scientific journals and technical conference committees.
When asked about us, we just state the obvious:
We are simply a bunch of research enthusiasts who view research as a way of living and not as just merely a routine in life. With multidisciplinary research teams of graduate students and research associates, we are in a constant quest for scientific or applied funded research projects and, most importantly, for the joy in advancing the state of knowledge in our field.
Not only is the road to success always under construction, but it is also full of potholes and surrounded by tempting parking places. The O-D problem is only the start of the journey.
Below are some of CTIM's most recent news and noteworthy achievements. Just bare in mind that no news, is good news.
Dr. S. Christodoulou has been elected as the Chairman of the European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3), for the period 2019-2021. EC3 is a society of construction professionals, academics, researchers and national Professional Bodies, aspiring to become the leading European forum in the area of information technology in construction engineering and management. EC3's mission is to advance professional knowledge and to improve engineering practice in the built environment by fostering research, education and policy in current and emerging computing and information technologies.
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CTIM proudly announces the receipt of 1.0 mEUR funding from the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation for the creation of an integrated plarform for low-cost roadway pavement assessment (using smartphones and participatory sensing) and adaptive-location traffic assessment using unmanned aerial vehicles. Further to CTIM, project partners are the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works (Public Workds Department), the KIOS Center of Excellence, the Municipality of Lakatamia, Signalgenerix Ltd. and Geoimaging Ltd.
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The "TrACE" H2020/Teaming proposal, in which CTIM was a consortium partner, was ranked 15th (of about 150 proposals) and was put on reserve list (14 proposals were funded) and granted a "Certificate of Excellence" by the European Commission for its innovation, excellence and scientific impact. The proposal, for the creation of a Center of Excellence in Transport Analytics had a budget of about 70.0 mEUR (over 10 years) and significant endorsement from local Agencies, research institutions and the private sector, as well as from European and Middle Eastern partners.
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The "Step2Smart" Hellas-Cyprus Interreg Action was featured on local TV, with key interviews by Dr. Dimitriou and Dr. Christodoulou. "Step2Smart"< aims the optimization of traffic signals in a case-study traffic artery and the development of a platform for traffic analytics for use by traffic agencies and citizens.
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CTIM is proud to announce that Dr. G. Hadjidemetriou has been granted a competitive post-doctoral scholarship by the University of Cambridge (UK) for work on infrastructure assessment and risk analysis. Dr. Hadjidemetriou, a CTIM doctoral student and research associate until Jan. 2019, had over his tenure at CTIM been awarded several scholarships and had worked on numerous research projects on roadway pavement assesment, BIM, machine vision and artificial intelligence.
CTIM proudly announces the graduation of two of his doctoral candidates, Dr. Charalambos Kyriakou and Dr. Georgios Hadjidemetriou who worked on low-cost roadway pavement assessment using smartphone-based sensors, machine vision, timeseries analysis and artificial intelligence. Both Charalambos and Georgios will continue on their academic and research paths as post-doctoral research associates at the University f Cyprus and the University of Cambridge, respectively. Congratulations Doctors; Well done!
Mr. C. Kyriakou's WCPAM2017 conference paper "Roadway Pavement Anomaly Detection and Classification by use of Smartphones and Artificial Intelligence" has received a 'best student paper award' at the World Conference on Pavement and Asset Management [WCPAM2017] (Baveno, Italy, Jun. 12-16, 2017) and, through it, acceptance of his work for presentation at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2018 Conference in Washington DC. The paper discusses the latest developments in Mr. Kyriakou's research work on low-cost smartphone-based detection and classification of roadway pavement anomalies by use of participatory sensing and artificial intelligence.
CTIM is proud to announce that three of its reseachers have been awarded doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships for studies at the University of Cyprus and abroad. The recipients are Dr. A. Agathokleous (postdoc scholarship on water distribution networks), Ms. S. Kranioti (Marie Curie doctoral scholarship on big data semantics and reasoning), and Mr. G. Hadjidemetriou (doctoral scholarship on infrastructure assessment by use of computer vision).
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CTIM's PRODROMOS team successfully completes the final-stage pilot implementation of the developed hardware/software platforms on the safe maritime transport of dangerous cargo. The platforms were demonstrated in the presence of officials from the Cypriot and Greek Ministries of Transport, the Cyprus Ports Authority, the Police Department, the Fire Department, First Responders, and several other stakeholders. Next pilot implementations are scheduled for November in Heraklion (Crete) and Athens, Greece.
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CTIM wishes Mr. Andreas Chari, a Nireas-IWRC researcher, the best at the Regional Competition for the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Young Professionals Global Challenge competition (Dubai, July 2015). Andreas was the winner of Cyprus's national competition earlier this year. The Global Challenge aims to encourage Young Professionals across the globe to address a real world engineering challenge with their diverse academic and technical exposure.
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CTIMS's Lab for Transport Engineering hosts the 2015 MULTITUDE Summer School (4th in the MULTITUDE series) on advanced traffic simulation. This intensive three-day school provides attendants with training on advanced traffic simulation methods and models, their systematic calibration and validation, the reliability of predictions made by traffic simulation models, and tools and frameworks for the management of uncertainty. Several case studies will be presented and a team-based, hands-on, practicum will guide attendants through the application of the whole process of uncertainty management in traffic simulation. The school is targeted at graduate and PhD students, engineers, researchers, consultants and government employees who wish to improve their understanding and skills in the application of traffic simulation to real world scenarios.
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CTIM's PRODROMOS project is awarded the Hellenic 2015 Transport and Logistics Excellence Award for its innovation in maritime transport. The PRODROMOS project is a research collaboration between Nireas-IWRC, Cyprus's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works - Dept. of Public Works, Cyprus's Port Authority, Greece's Ministry of Transport, the Heraklion Port Organisation, and the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, aiming for the development of processes, technology and tools for the safe maritime transport of dangerous cargo. The award ceremony was attended by about 350 senior executives from the largest companies in Greece, and awarded projects which were distinguished by a competent jury from the industry and academia.
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Dr. Symeon Christodoulou is elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE). ISCCBE is the leading forum in the area of information technology in civil engineering. The objective of the ISCCBE is to encourage international cooperation, collaboration and exchange of ideas and information related to the beneficial use of computers in civil and building engineering.
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CTIM's EUPALINOS - Construction Engineering and Water Networks Management Laboratory publishes its Decennial Report Brochure, covering the period of 2004-2014. The brochure details the research, academic and social activities of the lab and its people, providing information, images and statistics from its most significant achievements over the first 10 years since its inagauration.
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National and International Funded Projects
International Research Award
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For Us, Research Is A Way of Life, And Academic Success Is The Result Of Not Only Ingenious Ideas But Also Of Preparation, Hard Work And Perseverance.
by Dr. Symeon Christodoulou
Our research focuses on issues of national and international interest, of either applied or scientific nature, all intertwined in a self-feeding research and academic loop. National research agendas are linked to related international efforts, international knowledge is transfused into national research, scientific research is put to practice, and all earned knowledge is then transformed into instructional material. Within the general area of construction and transport infrastructure management, emphasis is given by the CTIM group on the following thematic areas: Building information models (BIM), risk management, resource-constrained scheduling, information technology, lifeline networks, transport systems design and operations, intelligent transport systems (ITS), traffic modelling, travel behaviour and road safety, roadway anomaly detection and classification, pavement management systems.
Traditional and IT-based construction engineering and management, with emphasis on: project scheduling and cost controls, RCSP, operations analysis, risk management, decision support systems and artificial intelligence, competitive bidding and qualifications-based selection.
Read MoreOptimal design and operations of transport infrastructure for all modes of transport, covering areas from the ‘soft- side’ (e.g. urban and freight systems, traffic networks, ITS, vehicles equipment, road safety, transit and para- transit systems, road/maritime/rail/air systems, transport economics, service and logistic systems), as well as from the ‘hard-side’ (e.g. terminal facilities, highways design, pavements, railways, bridges and tunnels).
Read MoreBIM in construction engineering and management, construction informatics, parametric modelling, BIM- based building energy calculations, automatic generation of BIM, fully integrated and automated process processes.
Read MoreAnalysing the underlying phenomena of transport/travel behaviour at the disaggregate (drivers, persons, forwarders, operators, etc.) as well as the aggregate level (demand organization, social networks formation, travellers choices, cargo flows organization, collective spatio-temporal decision making etc.), following international state-of-the- art methodological and quantitative approaches.
Read MoreCTIM programs teach professionals the broad array of technical and non-technical activities associated with construction and transport infrastructure management, and consist of courses from the following four categories: (A) core courses; (B) technical electives; (C) CEE-offered courses; (D) UCY-offered courses. Students are required to take a specified number of courses from each category, as summarized in Tables above and described in detail in the course syllabi listed below. The list of CTIM courses is subject to change based on UCY's latest CEE prostgraduate program of studies (last update: Sep. 2015), which supercedes any information posted on this website.
Head of the construction engineering and management group, and Director of the EUPALINOS lab.
Head of the transport engineering and management group, and Director of the Lab for Transport Engineering.
Research on roadway anomaly detection by use of vibration sensors and on pavement management systems.
Research on roadway pavement defect detection, by use of computer vision and suport vector machines.
Research on traffic state estimation, driving behavior, road safety and social networks analysis.
Research on intelligent transportation systems, mobility patterns, and big-data analytics.
Research on travel demand mapping, and traffic networks modeling.
Research on traffic state estimation, driving behavior, road safety and social networks analysis.
Research on water distribution networks, and building energy efficiency. Employed on the NIREAS-IWRC and ISES projects (2010-2015).
Head of the urban water distribution networks management research group.
Research on building information models and on building energy efficiency. Employed on the ISES project (2012-2014).
Research on building information models, transport networks, and smart cities.
Research on building information models, transport networks, and smart cities.
Research on building information models and on building energy efficiency. Employed on the ISES project (2013-2015).
Research on water distribution netwroks, GIS, and multimodal transport. Employed on the PRODROMOS project (2013-2015).
Research on building information models. Employed on the BIMAutoGen project (2014-2015).
Interested parties may learn more about the University of Cyprus's Construction and Transport Infrastructure Management postgraduate program and its activities, by browsing through this website or by downloading the documents/brochures listed below.
Trifold brochure on the research activities of the University of Cyprus's Construction and Transport Infrastructure Management (CTIM) Group. CTIM's research brochure provides an overview of CTIM's research pillars and ongoing research activities, its most significant achievements to date, research awards and professional recognition.
Trifold brochure on the academic programs offered by the University of Cyprus's Construction and Transport Infrastructure Management (CTIM) Group. CTIM's academic brochure provides an overview of CTIM's pillars and academic goals, its curricula and academic requirements, tuition and financial assistance schemes.
Decennial report brochure of the "EUPALINOS - Construction Engineering and Water Networks Management Laboratory", covering the period of 2004-2014. The brochure details the research, academic and social activities of the lab and its people, providing information, images and statistics from its most significant achievements over the first 10 years since its inagauration.
Detailed information from the current formal postgraduate studies policy of the University of Cyprus's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). CEE's prostgraduate program of studies provides, among other, overview of the postgraduate programs, descriptions of all courses offered by the Department, and suggested academic coursework by semester of study.
CTIM's offices are at the University of Cyprus's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) offices, at 91 Aglatzias Ave., Nicosia. Our laboratories are at CEE's laboratory complex, on Vitona Str., Strovolos, Nicosia.
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