PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANCIES

Earthquake structural engineering projects:

  1. Researcher in “Development of earthquake master plan for İstanbul,” Client: İstanbul Municipality, 2003.
  2. Researcher in “Application of İstanbul Masterplan to Zeytinburnu district,” Client: Bimtaş A.Ş./İstanbul Municipality, 2003.
  3. Researcher in “Seismic performance assessment of 23 school buildings in İstanbul,” 2004.
  4. Researcher in “Retrofitting design of selected public buildings In Istanbul-CB1.3D,” Client: Istanbul Special Province Administration - Istanbul Project Coordination Unit (IPCU), 2008.
  5. Principal investigator in “Preparation of seismic performance assessment and retrofitting projects for the buildings in Yüzüncü Yıl University in Van after the Van earthquakes,” Client: Yüzüncü Yıl University, 2011.
  6. Consultant to Rönesans Holding for “Evaluation of heliport design at Adana Main Hospital,” 2016.
  7. Consultant to Bensun Eng. Inc. for “Evaluation of base isolation design at Burhaniye State Hospital,” 2016.
  8. Peer Review for Ulker Eng. Inc. for “Seismic Performance Assessment and Rehabilitation of Six Turkcell Buildings,” 2018-2019
  9. Peer Review for Ulker Eng. Inc. for “Galata Greek School Earthquake Performance Assessment and Rehabilitation Project,” 2019  

Seismic hazard assessment of hydro-electric, dam, refinery and combined cycle power plant projects:

  1. Researcher in “Evaluation of projects of facilities for electricity power generation”, Client: Enerjisa Power Generation Co., 2009
  2. Consultant to Enerjisa Power Generation Co. for “Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of hydro-electric power facilities of Enerjisa Enerji Üretim A.Ş.” 2010
  3. Consultant to Enerjisa Power Generation Co. for “Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of Dağpazarı hydro-electric power facilities of Enerjisa Enerji Üretim A.Ş.” 2010.
  4. Consultant to Enerjisa Power Generation Co. for “Site-specific design spectrum of Alparslan II Dam and HEP sites based on PSHA,” 2010.
  5. Consultant to ES Proje Engineering and Consulting Co. for “Ankara TAI Building seismic hazard calculation,” 2010
  6. Consultant to ES Proje Engineering and Consulting Co. for “Site-specific PSHA and deterministic spectral analysis, selecting and scaling of records for OBE and MDE hazard levels for the Melen and Andiras Dam and HEP sites,” 2010-2011
  7. Panel reviewer as the seismic hazard expert and principal investigator for the World Bank funded Kocak Dam on the Kelkit River, Client: EKSEN Project Construction Tourism & Trade Co. Inc. 2010
  8. Consultant to Coyne and Bellier Inc. for “Seismic hazard analyisis and geotechnical engineering studies for a set of dams designed by Coyne and Bellier Ankara Branch Office,” 2011
  9. Consultant to Tractabell Engineering for “Seismic hazard assessment of İzmir, Edirne and Antalya dams designed by Tractabell Engineering,” 2012-2013.
  10. Consultant to Dolsar Mühendislik Ltd. Şti for “Seismic hazard analysis of Bursa Karacabey Yeşildere Dam.”
  11. Consultant to SOCAR-TURCAS Company for “Seismic hazard assessment and definition of seismic design loads for the SOCAR & TURCAS Refinery in İzmir Aliağa,” 2012.
  12. Consultant to 2ER Consultancy Project Supervision and Trade Co. Inc for “Site-specific seismic hazard analysis to obtain earthquake design loads for Petkim Container Terminal in İzmir-Aliağa Facilities,” 2014.
  13. Consultant to Siemens Inc for “Revised site-specific seismic hazard assessment for the design of building and non-building structures in Bandırma II - Combined Cycle Power Plant,” 2014.

Seismic hazard assessment of airports, ports, hospitals and metroline projects:

  1. Researcher in “Seismic hazard assessment of Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and Multi-story parking lot,” 2008.
  2. Researcher in “Probability-based site-specific design spectrum for the Zlitan Hospital building in Zlitan in Libya,” Client: Akpinar Group Companies, 2010.
  3. Consultant to Limak A.Ş. for “Site-specific hazard analysis of the Pristina International Airport-Computation of site-specific design spectrum,” 2011.
  4. Consultant to Doğuş İnşaat for “Determination of seismic design parameters for the Üsküdar-Ümraniye-Çekmeköy Metro Line,” 2013
  5. Project leader in “Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment and Site Characterization of the Terminal Structures at the New Istanbul International Airport (IGA),” 2015.
  6. Consultant to ERAS ARGE Mühendislik Danışmanlık A.Ş for “Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard study for the Bakırköy-Bahçelievler-Kirazlı Metro Line,” 2016.
  7. Consultant to 2ER Consultancy Project Supervision and Trade Co. Inc for “Scaled ground motions for the Turkmenbashi International Seaport project,” 2015.
  8. Consultant to IHIC İkitelli International Health Services Inc. for “Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment and record selection and scaling for the design of base isolation systems at the IHIC İkitelli International Health Complex in Istanbul,” 2014-2015.
  9. Consultant to Prota Inc. for “Determining probability-based seismic design loads of base isolated hospital buildings at Antalya, Biga, Elbistan, Gemlik, Keşan, Manisa and Sakarya,” 2015.
  10. Consultant to Prota Inc. for “Site-specific Probabilistic Seismic hazard assessment of Istanbul University Çapa and Cerrahpaşa Health Complexes,” 2016.
  11. Consultant to Prota Inc. for “Site-specific Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Turkcell Data Center in Tekirdağ,” 2017
  12. Consultant to Prota Inc. for “Site-specific Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Malatya Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Hospital,” 2017
  13. Consultant to Prota Inc. for “Site-specific Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Uşak State Hospital,” 2018
  14. Consultant to Prota Inc. for “Site-specific Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Uşak State Hospital,” 2018
  15. Consultant to Prota Inc. for “Site-specific Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment of Erzincan State Hospital,” 2019
  16. Seismic Hazard Expert as consultant to Royal Haskoning in “Site Specific PSHA for Port of Sokhna, Egypt” as part of ER&E Inc., 2019

Seismic hazard assessment of other structural system projects:

  1. Consultant to “Sub-train induced vibration analysis of GORDION Shopping Mall,” 2007.
  2. Researcher in “Seismic assessment of ETİ GÜMÜŞ A.Ş. Kütahya Facilities,” Client: ETİ GÜMÜŞ A.Ş. 2010.
  3. Consultant to Modern Mühendislik for “Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for Çırağan Palace Kempinsky Hotel in Istanbul,” 2014.
  4. Consultant to DAP Yapı İnşaat San. ve Tic. A.Ş. for “Seismic design loads and scaled ground motions for the Kartal-Istmarina Project,” 2014-2015.
  5. Consultant to Tahincioğlu Gayrımenkul İnşaat ve Turizm A.Ş. for “Computation of seismic design loads for the Nidapark Başakşehir, Nidapark Seyrantepe, Nidakule Ataşehir Projects,” 2014-2015.
  6. Consultant to Garanti Bank for “Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of the technology campus at Pendik,” 2015.

Nuclear power plant projects:

  1. Researcher in “Estimation of cumulative absolute velocity (CAV) from a recently compiled strong ground-motion database,” Client: International Atomic Energy Agency, 2008.
  2. Resource expert in the PEGASOS Refinement Project (PRF) for the Single-Station-Sigma and Spectral V/H ratios, Client:swissnuclear, Contract No. PMT-VT-1044 and PMT-VT-1048, 2010.
  3. Resource expert for GeoPentech Inc. for the technical team of the Southwest United States (SWUS) Ground Motion Characterization (GMC) Level 3 Senior Seismic Hazard Analysis Committee (SSHAC) Project, 2013.
  4. Member of technical evaluator team and work package leader of ground-motion characterization for the “Sinop Nuclear Power Plant Feasibility Study Project” conducted by Tractabell Engineering, 2015.
  5. Resource expert in the Taiwan SSHAC Project for developing the seismic source characterization (SSC) model and the ground motion characterization (GMC) model as inputs to the Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA) for Nuclear Power Plants in Taiwan, Client: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 2016.
  6. Consultant to ENVY and Environmental Investments for “Determination of Single Station Sigma at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant Site,” 2016.
  7. Consultant to Worley Parsons Nuclear Services JSC., for the Jordan Nuclear Power Company for the “Site Evaluation and Site Characterization for the Nuclear Power Plant in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” 2016-2017.
  8. Consultant to Worley Parsons Nuclear Services JSC., for the Jordan Nuclear Power Company for the “Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard Assessment for the Nuclear Power Plant in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” 2017.
  9. Ground Motion Characterization Technical Integrator of SSHAC Level 3 project “Site Characterization of the First Nuclear Power Plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” 2018-2021
  10. Contributor to the IAEA report “Optimization of Protection Against External Hazards for Advanced Reactors” 2021 (expected to be published in 2022.

Earthquake Risk and Insurance projects

  1. Coordinator in the “Preliminary Assessment of Earthquake Insurance Premium for Metropolitan Areas” project funded by Earthquake Foundation of Turkey in 2016.
  2. Coordinator in the “Revised TCIP Earthquake Insurance Premium of Turkey Considering the New Hazard Maps and Updated Residential Building Inventory” project funded by Earthquake Foundation of Turkey in 2018.
  3. Co-coordinator in the “Preliminary assessment of Earthquake Insurance Premiums for Nonresidential industrial and commercial buildings in Turkey” project funded by Earthquake Foundation of Turkey in 2018.
  4. Investigator in the “A Preliminary earthquake risk analysis of ENERJISA power plant portfolio,” 2018.
  5. Scientific advisor to TurkeRe for the “Development of National Risk and Loss Assessment of Insured Assets Platform,” 2020-2021.

Design Code Development

  1. Consultant to Yüksel Proje to develop a draft national seismic design code for pipelines and pump stations 2018-2019.
  2. Board member of National Earthquake Code Committee

World Bank Projects

  1. Consultant to Acclimatise Group Ltd. for the World Bank project entitled “A High-Level Critical Infrastructure Risk Assessment in Collaboration with the Cukurova Development Agency,” 2016-2018