Georgios Karras Email and Phone Number

“Κarras Engineering”, is an engineering, construction and commercial company with more than 35 years of experience in the building and renovation of hotels and other privately-owned projects. Based in Rhodes, the company is also active on the islands of Kos and Karpathos.•Turn-key constructions•On-site / Off-site Construction Management•Project Management & Logistics•Special projects•Develpment projects consulting•Engineering consulting•Technical Budgeting & Pre-planning•MEP studies (RA, Fire safety, HVAC, Energy saving etc.)

1. Rodos Niohori Elite Suites - Boutique hotel 4* in the heart of Rhodes city2. Dipagio Origin Villa - at Lachania, Rhodes

•Private at Infantry Corps / National Guard•Office of Informatics Research (GEP)

Intensive 2-year programme designed to introduce Graduate Marine Engineers and Naval Architects to the commercial, operational & functional areas of the world's leading independent provider of marine services to the commercial shipping and cruise industries.

•Project coordinator for a 70,000 GT cruise ship handover / management takeover ("ORIANA"/"PIANO LAND").•External Progress Planner for two hybrid expedition cruise new-buildings ( Hurtigruten's "ROALD AMUNDSEN" and "FRIDTJOF NANSEN") in Norway.•Drydock supervision responsible for logistics and progress monitoring of "CLUB MED II" cruise ship in Damen, Brest.

• Fleet superintendent training with focus on fully-pressurised LPG carriers• Dry-dock specification reports and tender analyses• Fleet performance monitoring (incl. SEEMP, performance reports) of LPG fleet.• Daily support to fleet monitoring and back-up when required.

• Following internal and external technical audits and HSEQ inspections (Container Vessels)• Incident Investigations and Technical Risk Assessment circulars.• Audit preparations for ISO 9001:2015 and related tasks for Technical Superintendent• MV "Artania" Sewage Treatment Plant Installation with SeaTec in B+V shipyard.

Research on ship energy storage and management systems as a part of my Master Thesis at TU Delft. Master Thesis titled ''Battery – Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System: A Practical Approach to Improve Lifecycle Performance of Seagoing Vessels''http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8a65f93b-bffc-4166-ad0f-d7d239162094

Final year dissertation-thesis (First-Class Honours) "On-board ice slurry cooling storage for marine applications"•Industry-based project with HVAC Innovation department of MEYER WERFT GmbH shipyard.•Examined the retrofit of a Quantum-class 167,000 GT cruise ship's marine refrigeration plant using phase change materials (PCM) •Matlab programming for the determination of optimum energy storage strategy and sizing.

Summer Internship at the Technical Department (Fleet of Bulk Carriers and Tankers)http://www.ensh.ch