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, we have started work to renovate the older hangar building in our Göztepe North Campus area, which was taken over from the State Supply Office (DMO). The building was used by our university as a warehouse in 2020 and was later renovated by our Department of Construction and Maintenance. The building was partially converted into our campus kitchen where the daily meals for our students, staff, and guests are cooked. To convert the building from a warehouse to a kitchen, partitioning, wet floor, and installation arrangements were made and ventilation systems were installed. The arrangements were followed by inspections by the Ministry of Health to obtain approval for the building’s reuse as a campus kitchen, which was brought into service in early 2021.
