Call for Submission of New Articles
This announcement is dedicated to our current Calls for Papers – please see the complete list below. Technical Annals Journal welcomes submissions within the scope of each individual call.
For help with submissions, please contact: technical-annals@central.tee.gr
7 . Design and Management of Port Coastal and Offshore Infrastructure in a Changing Climate
Guest Editor: Vasiliki Tsoukala
The deadline for articles submission has been extended.
8. Maritime Decarbonisation
Guest Editors: Dimitrios Lyridis
Nikolaos Ventikos
Deadline for submission:
15.10.2024
First Reviews Due:
20.10.2024
Revised Manuscript Due:
29.10.2024
Final Decision:
30.10.2024
Publication:
30.10.2024
The shipping industry is undergoing a significant transformation driven by the need for energy efficiency and technological advancement but also due to the current and imminent changes in regulations the require very strict environmental performance of vessels and port. The main challenge but also the key to this transition is the achievement of a win-win situation where the technological solutions are both more economical in the long run but also more environmentally friendly significantly reducing the carbon footprint of shipping.
Greening shipping and decarbonising the sector can be achieved using alternative fuels, various energy efficiency measures (for ships and ports), a high degree of digitalisation (incl. performance monitoring, big data management, just in time arrivals, etc.), measurement of emissions, advancement in issues of circular economy, drawing a green strategy, suggesting policies that satisfy the green goals.
This transition not only addresses environmental concerns but also positions the industry as a key player in the global movement towards sustainable and responsible trade practices.
9. Risk Assessment and Preservation of Civil Infrastructure in the Climate Crisis era
Guest Editors: Evangelos Sapountzakis
Kyriakos Lampropoulos
Deadline for submission:
10.12.2024
First Reviews Due:
20.12.2024
Revised Manuscript Due:
20.01.2025
Final Decision:
25.01.2025
Publication:
30.01.2025
Climate crisis poses a dual impact on built environment and civil infrastructure, in particular. At the environmental level, climate crisis increases the intensity and frequency of extreme events phenomena, and alters their spatial and temporal distribution. As a result, civil infrastructure is subjected to risks and hazards hitherto not designed for or at the current intensity and frequency. Climate crisis, thus, expends the useful life span of civil infrastructure at a more rapid rate than designed for.
At the level of civil infrastructure itself, the differentiation of environmental loads due to climate crisis, imparts unexpected or much higher than anticipated damage to the structures and their building material, which in turn, significantly decreases the ability of the infrastructure to sustain the ever increasing and varying environmental loads. The special issue presents the latest research developments in the fields of risk assessment and preservation technologies and strategies related to the enhancement of the sustainability of civil infrastructure in the climate crisis era.
10. Urban and Spatial Planning
Guest Editors: Sofia Avgerinou - Kolonias
Konstantinos Serraos
Deadline for submission:
15.03.2025
First Reviews Due:
04.04.2025
Revised Manuscript Due:
22.04.2025
Final Decision:
25.04.2025
Publication:
30.04.2025
Spatial Planning in Europe and Greece: Contemporary Challenges
In recent decades, Europe has been undergoing transformations due to recent crises and new developments and changes, particularly in the economic, social, environmental, energy, and geopolitical fields. Within this context, environmental management and the increasing risk from natural disasters, partly due to the intensifying climate crisis, have gained particular significance.
Given that all these broader developments, along with many others of a more local nature, leave significant impacts on space and/or require substantial spatial policies for their successful management, the study of the role of spatial planning at all critical scales across the European territory and in Greece becomes of special interest. In particular, focus is placed on regional spatial planning, urban planning, and urban design, with additional emphasis on cross-border, interregional, and intermunicipal spatial planning.
The purpose of this special issue of the scientific journal is, therefore, to highlight the contemporary challenges emerging in this new evolving European "landscape" that influence spatial planning, as well as the tools, methods, and techniques that spatial planning develops and formulates, stimulating corresponding policies by national and local elected authorities.
11. Planning Local Sustainable Development
Guest Editors: Charalambos Ioannidis
Aikaterini Delegou
Deadline for submission:
25.05.2025
First Reviews Due:
01.07.2025
Revised Manuscript Due:
15.07.2025
Final Decision:
25.07.2025
Publication:
30.07.2025
Rational of the Special Issue Planning Local Sustainable Development
As the climatic crisis is emphasized by intense climatic changes and extreme natural hazards, new demands on local development arises to apply sustainability on environmental and cultural assets, promoting on the same time social cohesion employment and growth. Interdisciplinary approaches to document, assess and evaluate local resources to promote proposals for sustainable development, as well as tools for planning, implementing and monitoring the implementation of strategic plans, are invited for submission in this volume.
12. Transdisciplinary Modelling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Guest Editors: Antonia Moropoulou
Charalambos Ioannidis
Sofia Avgerinou-Kolonias
Deadline for submission:
20.09.2025
First Reviews Due:
01.10.2025
Revised Manuscript Due:
20.10.2025
Final Decision:
25.10.2025
Publication:
30.10.2025
Innovative scientific methodologies and challenging projects marking future trends in the protection of cultural heritage, have initiated a universal conversation within a holistic approach, merging competence from the scientific fields of architecture, civil engineering, surveying engineering, materials science and engineering, information technology and archaeology, as well as heritage professionals on restoration and conservation, stakeholders, industry representatives and policy makers.
The combined utilization of digital documentation technologies with innovative analytical and non-destructive techniques, numerical, computational and 3D techniques, archaeometric and archaeogene methods, supports the creation of a transdisciplinary multispectral modeling towards the sustainable preservation of cultural heritage. Innovation is enhancing and revealing a critical dimension of the preservation of cultural heritage along with social participation and communication.
