About EUPALINOS -

Contruction Engineering and Water Distribution Networks Management Laboratory

EUPALINOS – The Lab

EUPALINOS is a laboratory of construction engineering and of urban water distribution networks (UWDN) management, focused on scientific and industrial research pertaining to construction engineering and to the sustainable management of UWDN. The EUPALINOS Lab is affiliated with the University of Cyprus's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and with the Nireas International Water Research Center (Nireas-IWRC), it is coordinated by Dr. Symeon Christodoulou and has been the host of several nationally and internationally funded research projects. Examples of such projects relate to the following research topics (by thematic area):

Construction Engineering and Management
  • building information models (BIM),
  • building energy efficiency,
  • resource-constrained scheduling of consruction projects, and
  • competitive bidding.
Urban Water Distribution Networks (UWDN)
  • risk-of-failure assessment and management of UWDN,
  • waterloss management,
  • waterflow and path routing in piping networks,
  • waterloss sensor development and sensor placement optimization,
  • automatic meter reading,
  • spatio-temporal analysis, and
  • reliability/vulnerability of networks.
Transportation
  • reliability/vulnerability of transport networks,
  • path routing,
  • track-and-trace of dangerous goods, and
  • integrated platforms for security, information and accessibility in intelligent multimodal transport.

The total project budgets allocated to EUPALINOS since 2004 are in excess of 1.0 million euro. Currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar, a postdoc, two research associates, one PhD student and a number of graduate students are actively involved in various projects in the lab, with research work from the current and past research groups of EUPALINOS already published in several journals and conference proceedings, an edited proceedings book (Springer), two book chapters and two special issues of high-impact scientific journals.

EUPALINOS – The Myth

“Eupalinos (Ancient Greek: Εὐπαλῖνος) or Eupalinus of Megara was an ancient Greek engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos in Samos (Greece) in the 6th century BC. The tunnel, presumably completed between 550 and 530 BC, is the second known tunnel in history which was excavated from both ends and the first with a methodical approach in doing so. Being also the longest tunnel of its time, the Tunnel of Eupalinos is regarded as a major feat of ancient engineering. It was constructed for the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, and was a remarkable 1,036 meters (3400 ft) long. It brought water to the city, passing through limestone at the base of a hill; this tunnel still exists.” (source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupalinos)

EUPALINOS – The Lab Equipment

Currently, the lab houses the following equipment:

  • 100m piped network
    • 100m underground piped network, complete with water tank, valves and sensors
  • Wireless sensors and gateway
    • Flow, pressure, soil moisture, rain, acoustic sensors, and AMR devices
  • Dedicated servers and workstations
    • 2 dedicated servers and 10 high-performance 64bit workstations with advanced graphics cards
  • AMR platform
    • AMR server, AMR devices, SMS gateway, real-time web-based analysis and GIS mapping
  • Virtual Reality hardware/software
    • EON Reality 3D/VR projection system
    • EON Reality 3D/VR software
  • GIS platform
    • SQL-server platform
    • 31 network licenses for ArcGIS (with extensions)
  • Specialized analysis software
    • DBMS : MS-SQL, Oracle, Ozeki SMS gateway
    • Software Development : MS Studio, .NET platform
    • Engineering Design : Autodesk Suite (AutoCAD, Revit, NavisWorks, Ecotect, etc.)
    • GIS Platforms : ArcGIS, Manifold, Quantum GIS
    • Analysis : Matlab, Crystal Ball, NCSS
    • Construction Management : Primavera Project Planner, Primavera P6, Primavera Contractor

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The EUPALINOS Lab in Brief

EUPALINOS is a laboratory of construction engineering and of urban water distribution networks (UWDN) management, focused on scientific and industrial research pertaining to these thematic areas. The EUPALINOS Lab is affiliated with the University of Cyprus's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and with the NIREAS International Water Research Center (Nireas-IWRC), it is coordinated by Dr. Symeon Christodoulou and has been the host of several nationally and internationally funded research projects in construction engineering and management, building information models, water distribution networks, and transportation networks.

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  • Phone:
    (+357) 2289 2270
  • Fax:
    (+357) 2289 5317
  • Email:
    [email protected]
  • Address:
    1, Panepistimiou Avenue
    P.O.Box 20537
    Aglantzia
    Nicosia 1087
    Cyprus