The increasing necessity to solve complex problems in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering requires the development of new ideas and innovative methods for providing accurate numerical solutions in affordable ...

In this work a number of design approaches for 3D Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings are formulated as structural optimization problems and are assessed in terms of their performance under earthquake loading. In particular, ...

The use of plants for soil erosion protection and slope stabilization has a long tradition. Old methods with rocks and plants, structures of timber have been used over the past centuries. Recently these old soil conservation ...

The research and the design focused at combining and enhancing the surrounding area of the school which is referred to as the “Lighthouse of Orthodoxy”. The project has been envisaged in such manner as to provide a spiritual ...

Sound irrigation management requires a knowledge and understanding of the interaction of plants, soils, and climate. Water conservation is a technical goal of irrigation management that relies upon techniques that maximizes ...

The control of flexible structures for those systems with actuators that are modeled by second order dynamics is examined. Two modeling approaches are investigated. First a stability and performance analysis is performed ...

Designing earthquake resistant structures has been the subject of great concern among engineers and scientists. The vertical seismic resisting elements in particular, in connection with the beam and the plates in a reinforced ...

The importance of green spaces and their benefits for large urban centers is well recognized. In the basin of Athens in Greece, a built-up urban environment, the lack of environmental planning has resulted the lack of ...

The report aims to improve environmental management by intergrating and making more accessible to managers the information on environmental perceptions of the landscape in Kastoria Western Macedonia. First a literature ...

The network of spatial interventions proposed for the Pafos2017 “Open Air Factory” was not conceived as a mere series of sites for events, but as a place-making tool for re-defining the identity of Pafos and re-directing ...

This work aims to contribute on the form finding techniques of generative space artifacts, considering objects of parametric design as programming objects, and in particular design variables –due to parametric approach- ...

In the first-year design studios, discussions on form tend to be avoided; for those un-initiated in architectural thinking, forms may easily be associated with stylistic or aesthetic pursuits, far removed from the conceptual ...

The Polyphyto Hydroelectric Project was constructed in 1974 and it has been operating since on the Aliakmonas River, Kozani prefecture, by the Greek Public Power Corporation. The construction of the Ilarion Hydroelectric ...

Greenways are corridors of undevoped land in a city setting. They include vegeration belts, creeks, rivers,floodplains and other natural features along public infrastructures. Public infrastructures consist of utility ...

The paper is an attempt to approach the imaginary dimension of ‘making a home’ in the urban periphery; in sites that are still under construction, in places whose character is still undefined and fleeting. ‘Making a home’ ...

A number of infrastructure projects are on progress ail around Greece at the moment. The common propose of these a project is the promotion of quality in: Design, construction and maintenance stages. They also comply ...

The Egnatia Motorway was designed according to the specifications of the Trans-European road nelwork.It is a closed double carriageway motorway 680 kilometres long, with two lanes plus an emergency lane on either side ...

Environmental planning must involve, among other things, the regulation and control of land use. In the case of forest environments, forest use and activities such as forest recreation and so on should contain environmental ...

During the preparation of Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, many changes have been applied in Old Landscape e.g. parks, city squares, pedestrian roads.In addition New Landscapes have been contracted, especially around the main ...