Yeşil Bina Dergisi 8. Sayı (Temmuz-Ağustos 2011)

54 YEŞİL BİNA / AĞUSTOS 2011 SUMMARY GREEN BUILDING / Sustainable Building Technologies Magazine ISSUE: 8 • JULY / AUGUST 2011 IntervIew General Manager of KONE Türkiye, Cüneyt Işın Cüneyt Işın, The General Manager of KONE Türkiye which leads the sector with its energy-efficient elevators and escalators, says: “we have been producing nature compatible products even when ‘green’ buildings were not trendy”. Page 22 Project Torium Shopping Mall Torium, as the shopping mall investment of Torunlar in Istanbul, is the first shopping mall which is entitled to have LEED Gold certificate in Turkey. Through its environment-friendly applications, Torium gained the success to be one of the biggest (266 thousand square meters) buildings with LEED Gold in Europe. Page 16 Project Tremco’s Head Office is on the way to LEED Gold Tremco illbruck and Tremco Incorporated as one of the RPM BSG’s subsidiaries, realising a very important project that will bring them LEED Gold certificate, started the green roof renovation works for the forty-year head office situated in Beachwood, Ohio. Page 24 Project Sustainable Building Design Sample Multi-storey shop/Office Building in North Iraq Designed by Mimta Architecture, the building which has 12 thousand square meters indoor space, is situated in Suleymaniye (Iraq) city. Mimta Architecture applied sustainable architectural principles during the planning of the building and followed integrated Project design methodology. Page 28 Technology Vaillant offers Seolit Heat Pump to the market Beside increasing the renewable energy sources product range, the inventor of water heater, combi boiler, thermosiphon and suspended type heater units, Vaillant’s center in Germany, works also intensively on micro cogeneration, cogeneration instruments, fuel cells and zeolite heat pump. Page 32 Green conversIon From a Barn to a “zero-energy” Office Building Hausladen Engineering Office, situated in Germany, transformed an unused barn to a modern office that architects, engineers and physicians can work. In this Project, operating costs of the structure is reduced through the simple and effectively designed energy concept and indoor comfort is kept high. Page 40