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Item type:Item, Identıfyıng Crıtıcal Barrıers To Cırcular Constructıon Adoptıon From A Cross-Country Perspectıve(ISEC Press, 2025) Metinal, Yusuf Berkay; Ayalp, Gulden GumusburunCircular construction (CC) is a transformative approach in the construction industry, emphasizing the integration of circular economy (CE) principles to overcome sustainability barriers, reduce waste, and optimize resource efficiency. This innovative methodology prioritizes material design, deconstruction, and reuse while fostering collaboration to drive systemic change. However, CC adoption faces significant challenges across countries, which has limited global understanding and implementation. These disparities highlight the need for targeted research to address barriers specific to various national contexts. Transitioning to CC offers an opportunity to decouple construction activities from resource depletion and environmental degradation. Yet, the limited research on CC adoption, particularly regarding its impact on project performance, underscores the urgency of identifying hindering factors. Therefore, this study aims to systematically identify, classify, and prioritize critical barriers through a systematic literature review (SLR). Barriers will be categorized based on their occurrence in countries with differing development levels, enabling cross-country insights and comparisons. The findings will illuminate the most critical obstacles to CC adoption and propose key indicators and strategies to address them. This research seeks to facilitate CC adoption globally by offering actionable insights, contributing to enhanced construction management practices, and sustainable development. © 2025 ISEC Press.Item type:Item, Mappıng Sustaınable Development Goals In Constructıon: A Co-Occurrence Analysıs For Strategıc Prıorıtızatıon(ISEC Press, 2025) Metinal, Yusuf Berkay; Ayalp, Gulden GumusburunThe construction sector is closely linked to nearly all United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), making it essential for global sustainability. However, the slow progress toward achieving these goals emphasizes a sustainability crisis and challenges in focus and prioritization. With the targets at risk of being unmet by 2030, stakeholders must identify which ones need immediate attention and where to concentrate their efforts. Strategic prioritization not only accelerates progress but also ensures the long-term sustainability of the construction sector itself. This study uses bibliometric and cluster analyses to examine the intersection of these global objectives and the construction industry, mapping the knowledge landscape and identifying gaps, trends, and actionable priorities. The research provides a structured framework to streamline efforts, tackle multifaceted challenges, and effectively target critical issues. By prioritizing targets and emphasizing interconnected goals, the framework enables stakeholders to develop focused strategies and adapt to changing regulatory and market demands. Additionally, it offers tools for benchmarking and monitoring the sector's contributions, fostering innovation, and enhancing stakeholder engagement. The findings deliver actionable insights, guiding the construction industry to align its practices with global sustainability standards and contribute meaningfully to the 2030 Agenda. © 2025 ISEC Press.Item type:Item, Identıfyıng Crıtıcal Barrıers To Cırcular Constructıon Adoptıon From A Cross-Country Perspectıve(Joint International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, ISEC 2025 and 7th Australasia Structural Engineering Construction, ASEA-SEC-07 2025, 2025) Metinal, Yusuf Berkay; Ayalp, Gulden GumusburunCircular construction (CC) is a transformative approach in the construction industry, emphasizing the integration of circular economy (CE) principles to overcome sustainability barriers, reduce waste, and optimize resource efficiency. This innovative methodology prioritizes material design, deconstruction, and reuse while fostering collaboration to drive systemic change. However, CC adoption faces significant challenges across countries, which has limited global understanding and implementation. These disparities highlight the need for targeted research to address barriers specific to various national contexts. Transitioning to CC offers an opportunity to decouple construction activities from resource depletion and environmental degradation. Yet, the limited research on CC adoption, particularly regarding its impact on project performance, underscores the urgency of identifying hindering factors. Therefore, this study aims to systematically identify, classify, and prioritize critical barriers through a systematic literature review (SLR). Barriers will be categorized based on their occurrence in countries with differing development levels, enabling cross-country insights and comparisons. The findings will illuminate the most critical obstacles to CC adoption and propose key indicators and strategies to address them. This research seeks to facilitate CC adoption globally by offering actionable insights, contributing to enhanced construction management practices, and sustainable development. © 2025 ISEC Press.Item type:Item, A Model Proposal For The Contınuıty Of Desıgn Awareness In The Basıc Educatıon System(ISEC Press, 2025) Güllü, KübraTürkiye's basic education system includes a range of courses designed to prepare students for undergraduate education. However, the design education component of the curriculum is considered inadequate. Students interested in design enter university without prior experience and therefore need a long period of time to master basic design concepts. It is known that innate design instincts are gradually diminishing due to environmental factors. It is believed that these skills can be developed in the early years through targeted education. This study aims to identify the age at which design abilities begin to decline and proposes the integration of design-based content into the curriculum at this critical stage. For this purpose, the Visual Arts curriculum of primary schools in Türkiye was analyzed and relevant design theories and methodologies were extensively reviewed. The study found similarities between the Visual Formation and Communication outcomes of the Visual Arts curriculum and the basic design course in undergraduate education. Based on the views of three Visual Arts educators, the model aims to increase the effectiveness of basic design courses at the university level. It is expected that developing design awareness in early education will have a positive impact on undergraduate education and raise more talented designers. The implementation of this model is expected to improve the quality of design education. © 2025 ISEC Press.Item type:Item, The Effect of Reflective Blankets on Reducing Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia in Abdominal Surgery Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial(W.B. Saunders, 2025) Yava, Ayla; Güzel, Ali; Koyuncu, AynurPurpose This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a reflective blanket on reducing perioperative hypothermia and on thermal comfort and shivering levels in patients undergoing abdominal surgery. Design The research is in the design of a randomized controlled clinical trial. Methods This randomized controlled trial, conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 in a public hospital, included 105 American Society of Anesthesiologists I and II patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy or umbilical hernia surgery. Patients were randomized into three groups: active warming (n = 35), reflective blanket (n = 35), and routine care (n = 35). The active warming and reflective blanket groups received 15 minutes of prewarming. Body temperature, shivering, and thermal comfort were assessed. Data were analyzed with SPSS 21.0 (IBM Corp) ( P < .05). Findings There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in terms of demographic and clinical characteristics ( P > .05). At the end of anesthesia, hypothermia was observed in 71.4% of patients in the control group, 42.9% in the intervention group and 28.6% in the reference group ( P < .05). Before clinical transfer, hypothermia persisted only in the control group (37.1%) and was not observed in the other two groups ( P < .001). Shivering was seen only in the control and intervention groups, while it was absent in the reference group ( P < .05). Thermal comfort scores were similar at baseline, but during the perioperative period, the reference group had the highest and the control group the lowest scores ( P < .01). Conclusions The use of reflective blankets was as effective as active warming in reducing the incidence of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and shivering and increasing the level of thermal comfort perception in patients and provided superiority over the control group. © 2025 The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses.
