In our campus planning, IMU attaches importance to reusing older buildings within the campus area in order to reduce carbon emissions from transport and construction and the amount of demolition waste in addition to demolition and construction costs and to prevent environmental damage. After disaster risk assessments are conducted for the existing buildings inside the campus, initiatives are taken to reuse those buildings whose safety is ascertained and that are not past their economic life in accordance with the university’s needs.
In this context, a building within Orhanlı Campus area which had previously been used for educational purposes was renovated following a tender made in 2017 and refunctioned as a dental hospital. The renovation work in the building involved spatial arrangements as needed by a dental hospital such as dentist’s rooms, x-ray rooms, and operating rooms and the installations were made as required by the new functions of the building. Following the inspection and approval of the Ministry of Health, the building was put into service in 2021 as Istanbul Medeniyet University Dental Hospital.
