Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Environmental Science Symposium of Van (IESSV) 2014, Van, Türkiye, 5 - 07 Mayıs 2014, cilt.1, sa.54, ss.74-75, (Özet Bildiri)
“Balancing environmental protection
and social responsibility with a healthy economy over time” is the main concept
of all sustainability definitions that have been made so far. It is not
possible to mention the social or economic dimensions of its because
sustainability is usually seen as a guide for economic and social policymaking
in equilibrium with ecological conditions. The main objective of each study
with a vision of sustainability should represent all three aspects of
sustainability; economic, environmental and social.
Environmental sustainability is
the ability to maintain the qualities that are valued in the physical
environment. Environmental sustainability programs include actions to reduce
the use of physical resources, the adoption of a ‘recycle’ approach, the use of
renewable rather than depletable resources, the redesign of production
processes and products to eliminate the production of toxic materials, the
protection and restoration of natural habitats and environments valued for
their livability or beauty. The most important activities to ensure
environmental sustainability can be defined as the efficient use of energy and
water resources.
In recent years, the efficient use of
energy and water in architecture highlights sustainable
building systems. For centuries, techniques that were used for energy and
water efficiency (ex. Green roofs that help to lower urban air temperatures and
mitigate the heat island effect, collection and use of rainwater for
irrigation, the use of natural, non-toxic materials such as stone/wood etc.) especially
in rural settlement areas, has re-emerged as a part of the sustainable building
systems (green buildings) today. The main reason for this concept of emergence is the increasing importance of sustainable energy and environment
issues. Developing technology and a wide range of products/solutions have led
to the development of certification systems to measure green buildings' sustainability.
Nowadays, many certification
systems are used either on a global or national scale. All these
certification systems have structural similarities in common, especially in sub-categories
and criteria. These certificates can only be given after an assessment mainly
based on energy and environmental evaluation. In Turkey, only 3 of them are
currently used. These are LEED (USA), BREEAM(United Kingdom) and DGNB
(Germany). Turkey’s green building certification system SEEBER-TR was introduced
in January 2014. LEED is the most widely used system in Turkey. There are approximately
50 LEED-certified building in our country.
To receive LEED
certification, every green building project is required to take at least 40-49
points out of 100 from the specified titles of “New Construction and Major
Renovations Project Checklist”. In the selected LEED-certified project, landscape
planning studies, which provides energy and water efficiency, were described. The
plant species used in the project were evaluated. It has been identified that getting
points from structural credits was preferred instead of landscaping credits.
The reason is that the scores which will be gained by landscape planning
studies are not high enough. Remarkably, landscape architects who
work ecologically based on design, planning, management and conservation of
natural and cultural environment as a profession can’t take place adequately
in these green building projects.