Category: Civil Engineering
List of Turkish Technical Consultancy Companies
For years I am working with international projects with multinational teams/companies. Some of the projects I stepped into from the scratch and realized that the companies have issues in a new market/country as to build up team, collaboration with local laws – legislation and also codes, specifications, standards and etc. Besides that presently in construction […]
Top Down Construction
Let’s pause on the Contract Management & FIDIC for a while and “get our hands in dirt”; talk about Top Down Construction Method. The time I have worked in Moscow, I had chance to see/work on a project within top down construction method on site. As per my observations Russian construction industry is well aware […]
FIDIC Silver Book & FIDIC Gold Book
Within the EPC/Turnkey Based projects FIDIC Silver Book will be your guide. As my last two projects were EPC based and the last one is PPP (Public-Private Partnership) Infrastructure-Highway project within a multinational joint venture private partnership side on the other hand and if you have in the same kind of project (These days most of […]
FIDIC Red Book
After a short break, lets continue with the FIDIC Guidelines. I got mails requesting the rainbow books for share. Newbies of FIDIC, for a general overview please refer my previous post titled; FIDIC. Our first Book is FIDIC Red Book, Conditions of Contract for Construction for Building and Engineering Works Designed by the Employer. Below […]
Engineering Highlights from the London Olympics
Olympic Games 2012 – London ended yesterday after the closing ceremony. There were many discussions on medals, countries, etc. But another issue was the engineering highlights from the London Olympics and of course the civil engineering side of the games; Phases through design, plan & built, how they will manage, what is the plans after […]
FIDIC
As it is mentioned in the title of the Blog I am a civil engineer and working for International Construction Project Management Firm. As a result of this FIDIC is one of my topics that needed to be worked/ studied on. I created a FIDIC starter guide who wants to learn general information about FIDIC […]
Nuclear Energy in Turkey and The First Nuclear Power Plant
Brief History of Nuclear Energy in Turkey, For decades Turkey is planning to construct a nuclear station. And whenever government decides to work on the nuclear power plant plans first NGO’s than public reacted so strict. That I call it Turkey’s Game on Nuclear Energy Besides, Chernobyl Accident in 1986 affected Turkey seriously especially north […]
Civil Engineer Career Path
Most of the new graduates have the same question in their mind about their career path as a civil engineer; “Which way is the best for my career “and of course “how I can plan my career path”. On my side there are a lot of ways and branches for creating or determining your path […]