15th Structural Steel Day, the essential organization of Turkish Construction Steel Association was held on 18 December 2014 Thursday in Istanbul Mariotte Asia Hotel with broad participation.
Power of TUCSA
15th Structural Steel Day commenced with the opening speech of Prof. Dr. Nesrin Yardımcı, Chairman of Turkish Construction Steel Association and President of European Structural Steel Association. Prof. Dr. Yardımcı started her speech with a movie show prepared with samples from steel structures manufactured in Turkey and emphasized that studies of Turkish Construction Steel Association had a mahor role in the significant increase in number of steel structures in the last ten years. TUCSA Chairman summarized the activities of Turkish Construction Steel Association having completed 22 years on 15th Structural Steel Day and shared the power of the Association with the participants.
In the first session of 15th Structural Steel Day, a panel with the subject “Quality in Steel Structures, But How?” was held. In the panel under the moderation of Ayfer Adıgüzel from Conformity Assessment Association; architect Ahmet Alataş from Ahmet Alataş Architectural Bureau expressed his views from architectural design perspective, M.Sc. Civil Engineer Ahmet Topbaş from A Teknik Proje Ofisi expressed his views from structural design perspective, Halit Levent Akbaş from Atak Mühendislik reflected the point of view of steel manufacturers and Mehmet Işıklar from SZUTEST Inspection and Supervision Services shared his views on inspection perspective of the subject with the participants. Panelists, having made an appreciation of the situation in Turkey, shared their views on what needs to be done from now on regarding their respective fields.
Second Session of 15th Structural Steel Day with the presentation of steel structure projects by experts in Turkey was the activity with the most interest from participants. First of the presentations held under the Chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Harun Batırbaygil was “Two Samples of Monoplane and Free Form Roof Skylights from Astana Nazarbayev Center and Bratislava Bory Mall Turnado” presented by Metal Yapı Chairman Selami Gürel. During the impressive presentation given by Selami Gürel, overcoming difficulties in steel structures in the projects was presented.
Second project of the session of steel structures was the recently-opened Konya Stadium. During the presentation given by architect Bahadır Kul, architectural designer of the project, participants had the opportunity to observe Konya Stadium project with all its details. Bahadır Kul, having his signature in most of the recent stadium projects in Turkey, thus shared the current level of local design in steel structures with the participants of 15th Structural Steel Day.
Another steel structure in the agenda of 15th Structural Steel Day was NoXX Apartment. Although NoXX Apartment is a small steel structure constructed in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, the project having earned reputation with its design deftness and won international awards was presented by the architect of the project, Cem Sorguç. NoXX Apartment Project which proved the effects of steel structures having a small percentage in residences in Turkey when designed rationally also drew interest of the participants of 15th Structural Steel Day with Cem Sorguç’s sincere insight of all details of the project and his decision process in design.