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Multi-criteria performance evaluation of a glass panel system using full-scale experimental data
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-11-01)
In order to better evaluate the lifetime performance of glass panel facade systems, this study firstly proposes to conduct a full-scale wind resistance, air/water infiltration, and seismic resistance tests. Two specimens ...
Istanbul: The city as an urban palimpsest
(Elsevier, 2021-05)
The metropolitan cities of the world continue to grow rapidly with their dynamic, mostly chaotic features that perpetually contain randomness, notwithstanding their specific differences. These inevitably constantly changing ...
Residential satisfaction assessment of a 1970s modernist housing community in Istanbul: searching for the reasons behind the preservation of a housing community’s current architectural status against the urban transformation movements affecting the entire city
(Springer, 2022-06)
Going against the mainstream popularity of high-rise housing developments dominating the Turkish construction market in the late twentieth century, Haluk Baysal and Melih Birsel collaboratively built the Istanbul Yesilkoy ...
Occupants' migration in residential buildings towards comfort and energy efficiency (case of traditional residential architecture in Iran)
(Springer, 2021-03-17)
Recently, the role of occupants' behaviors on building energy efficiency has been much more taken into account. Occupants' migration on a building scale is a phrase on which this article focuses as one of the best occupants' ...
A user detective adaptive facade towards improving visual and thermal comfort
(Elsevier, 2021-01)
Adaptive skins and, in particular, adaptive façade play a significant role in the future of environmentally friendly spaces. Meanwhile, occupants' involvement in the process of adaptive façade design and operation is ...
Multi-criteria decision making for city-scale infrastructure of post-earthquake assembly areas: Case study of Istanbul
(Elsevier, 2022-01)
Assembly areas are first gathering places after earthquakes, and provide temporary sheltering. However if these areas have greater risks after earthquakes, they become more deadly. Current studies commonly look for evacuation ...
Rural gentrification of the ancient city of Assos (Behramkale) in Turkey
(Elsevier, 2021-10)
Behramkale, also known as the ancient city of Assos, has gained considerable national and international visibility after its declaration as an Archaeological site in 1982 and later in 2000 as Urban Archaeological site. The ...
Comprehensive parameters for the definition of nearly zero energy and cost optimal levels considering the life cycle energy and thermal comfort of school buildings
(Elsevier, 2021-12-15)
There has been an increasing interest in studying energy efficiency in buildings in the recent years, as they account for a significant portion of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. While most of ...
Steel slag and its applications in cement and concrete technology: A review
(Elsevier, 2021-05-10)
In this review, steel slag usage in the cement and concrete industry and its environmental effects were examined. Also, its physical and chemical structure, its effect on the characteristics of concrete, and its applications ...
Waste marble powder
(Elsevier, 2022)
Every manufacturing process generates waste. The amount of generated wastes increases as total production in every sector increases around the world. These wastes need to be managed somehow. Some byproducts and wastes can ...
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