TGBC (CEDBIK) celebrated World Green Building Week

Wednesday, 08 December 2010 00:32 TGBC (CEDBIK) celebrated World Green Building Week. The Turkish Green Building Council (CEDBIK) organized a series of events during World Green Building Week. On 30th of September, CEDBIK hosted a VIP reception at Istanbul Congress Center in order to raise awareness about the green building week. Authorities from government and private sector, media representatives, and CEDBIK members attended the reception. During this reception, CEDBIK authorities gave many interviews and CEDBIKs communication firm will release a press release. The reception has coincided with the first day of Buildist - a construction materials fair/conference. As part of the Buildist Conference, CEDBIK organized LEED Associate Exam preparation and BREEAM trainings. Besides this, CEDBIK held a seminar series called CEDBIK-Arena for 3 days. The series consists of panels about green sector including sustainable buildings and technology, innovative system and materials, ecology and media, sustainable architecture and ethics, ecology and wellbeing, sustainability and politics, ecologic crisis etc. Furthermore, CEDBIK members have participated in the World Green Building Week by attending CEDBIK-ARENA (Greenbuild part of the conference).
TGBC (CEDBIK) published the second edition of its magazine EKOYAPI in October. The main subject of this issue is green schools, new standards in schools and FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified wood. Details about many international projects, news about CEDBIK and its members took part in this issue.
TGBC (CEDBIK) organised a panel in Green Facilities Conference on October 5-6th. During the Green Facilities Conference, a panel is organized by CEDBIK. In this panel, Vice President of CEDBIK and representatives of two CEDBIK Board members gave presentations. The main subject of the panel was management of green projects. In the panel project phases, project planning and management of LEED projects were discussed.
TGBC (CEDBIK) organised meeting for Certification Committe on October 13th and November 11th. CEDBIK organised two meetings for the certification committee which is formed by professional BREEAM Assessors. The major item was the next step which is BREEAM adaptation meetings of certification committee members with the advisory committee members. The members, target of the meetings, role of the academicians were discussed in the meetings. Members from academia and industry are attending these meetings.
TGBC (CEDBIK) and JOTUN organised meeting for new product launching on October 20th. The focus of the meeting was an ecological dye launching. In this meeting CEDBIK coordinator gave a presentation focusing on CEDBIK mission, vission, organization and activities. Also, he mentioned about green building certification systems. Afterwards CEDBIK member, Jotun representative educated everyone about the properties of ecological dye, manufacturing process, quality tests etc.
TGBC (CEDBIK) organised LEED Associate Exam training for 2 full days on October 23rd and November 6th. CEDBIK ran LEED course focusing on the main evaluation criteria of LEED including sustainable sites, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, water efficiency and Indoor Air Quality. Each session was delivered by a professional LEED AP. The education was very successful as indicated in the surveys conducted throughout the course. 45 people attended the course and a certificate of attendance was given to those who participated in the course which will also serve as one of the prerequisites required for entering the LEED Green Associate Exam. The TGBC will continue running similar courses in the future and has opened up a pre-registration corner for it in its website.
TGBC (CEDBIK) signed Memorandum of Understanding with Germany GBC (DGNB) on November 25th. CEDBIK and DGNB signed the Memorandum of Understanding to work together about certification systems, trainings etc.
TGBC (CEDBIK) organised Publication Committee meeting on November 29th. CEDBIK organised a meeting for the publication committee to specify the main subjects, content, strategy for the 4th edition of EKOYAPI.
TGBC (CEDBIK) acquired 3 new members. Among the new members, one of them is Designcase Architecture, Planning, Sustainability which is a sustainable architecture company and the other one is UCM Kompozit Yapı Malzemeleri which manufactures composite construction materials. Also, EE İstanbul Proje ve Danışmanlık which is a project consultancy company became a CEDBIK member.