Ahşap Yapılar ve Türkiye'de İnşaat Mühendislerinin / Ağaç İşleri Endüstri Mühendislerinin Çok Katlı Ahşap Yapılara Yönelik Görüşleri

Abstract

Wood is a material that humans have been using from the beginning of their existence that is indispensable thanks to its appearance, aesthetics, isolation, and malleability. Humans have also been using wood materials to address one of their basic needs: sheltering. There are many wooden buildings, bridges and stadiums in the world that are currently in use. With the advancement technology, wood's protection methods, malleability, resistance against fire and earthquakes, and reinforcement of its mechanical strength improve with each passing day. With such improved features, besides being used in multi-storey buildings as partial piece, the use of wood materials as loadbearing system has also accelerated. iv While the use of multi-storey wooden structures as load-bearing system has accelerated around the world, there are no examples in our country. The study examines the following subjects: the properties of wood materials and their protection, lamination techniques, examples of wooden buildings from our country, historical wooden buildings in the world, and the advantages of using wood in buildings. Besides these examinations, this study analyze the awareness and attitudes of civil and wood products industrial engineers on multi-storey wooden buildings through surveying. The participants of the survey were chosen from wood products industrial engineers, as the applied material is based on wood industry, and civil engineers, since the material's field of application is usage as load-bearing system in constructions. A total of 32 individuals participated in the survey, 14 of whom were civil engineers and 18 wood products industrial engineers. As a result of this study, it has been observed that wood materials, with which human beings have long been using them in various ways, have also been enjoying increasing usage in multi-storey buildings. The study envisages that in order to initiate and accelerate the multi-storey wooden building sector in our country, protection, lamination, and application techniques of wood materials should become prevalent, and a vision shall be created whereby the advantegous properties of wood materials can be used in buildings.