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, Block K located within our Göztepe North Campus area, which had previously been used by a firm and was later transferred to our university’s ownership, was converted from a commercial unit into an educational building housing offices, classrooms, and laboratories in line with the needs of our university. As part of the renovation work carried out by our Department of Construction and Maintenance, the interior space of the building was re-partitioned to be used as classrooms, a library and conference hall was designed within the building, and a research laboratory was established on floor -1. Once all the installation works were completed for the refunctioning of the building, it was brought into service in 2017.
