The construction sector is known for its highly fragmented, project-based, and complex nature. Besides, resistance to new technology adoption in construction projects worldwide, mainly in developing countries, is considered ...

Data analyses in transportation engineering require large amounts of recent traf fic data of high quality, which are often unavailable. Conventional data collection methods such as in-vehicle GPS trackers are time-consuming ...

This thesis investigates the energy content of modern high-rise residential buildings in Istanbul. High-rise residential buildings are rapidly increasing due to urbanization and they are mainly constructed in dense areas ...

The increasing population of big cities and hence the increasing rate of vehicle use with the population bring important environmental and economic problems. Traf- c congestion is one of the main causes of these problems. ...

This thesis investigates the applicable methods for ambient vibration testing and seismic assessment to the cultural heritage buildings by using the Hagia Irene Church in Istanbul as the case study. The city of Istanbul ...

Construction safety is considered as a global concern with its high rates of fatal and non-fatal occupational accidents reported every year in the world. Construction safety trainings are proven to be one of the most ...

Bridge maintenance planning is a complex problem because of the complex ity of the objectives. Handling this issue optimally is a challenge. There is a need of bridge planning process to organize and control the bridge ...

Comparison analysis between meshless Radial Basis Function Collocation Method and Finite Element Method is conducted in this work. Models for both steady and unsteady versions of Poisson and Stokes equation with various ...

Recent developments in concrete technology enabled us to design highly owable self-levelling mortar mixes. Generally, high owability is obtained by incorporation of strong superplasticizers, which could also increase the ...

The construction sector is one of the sectors in which technological developments show the least impact. Thanks to Building Information Modeling (BIM), a new era has begun in the construction industry. After BIM usage, it ...