Rönesans is a world-leading project development and construction group, building for a better society.
Primarily in Turkey and the Netherlands, but also in other European countries, CIS countries, the Far East, and the Caribbean,
we operate as a main contractor and investor in the construction, real estate, health, energy, and petrochemistry sectors.
As the Rönesans family, we are working hard to heal the wounds of our homeland during this incredibly challenging time. We share the deep sorrow of those who have lost their loved ones in the earthquake disaster that has affected millions of our fellow citizens.
Alongside emergency humanitarian aid, we are working to produce sustainable solutions to meet earthquake victims' immediate and long-term needs, and we are in constant contact with public institutions and organizations.
Our brave search and rescue team, which set out at 05:00 on the morning of the first earthquake despite the fact that they and their families have also been deeply affected, have carried out active search and rescue operations for more than 195 hours, pulling 189 citizens, including 23 children, out of the rubble. Furthermore, with over 2,000 Rönesans volunteers, as well as our construction site, hospital, project, and center teams, which have provided shelter for 4,078 people and served 819,000 meals along with our business partners who support all our activities, we strive to meet the needs of all earthquake victims.
On the first day of the earthquake, we dispatched over 100 vehicles and equipment, including cranes, excavators, loaders, JCBs, Bobcats, generators, containers, lighting towers, 28 emergency need trucks, and two mobile kitchens to the region. In addition, we opened Malatya Erman Ilıcak Science High School and Malatya Darende Bekir Ilıcak Vocational High School to earthquake victims and worked with UCIM to support unaccompanied children. We assigned volunteer psychologists who have been working 24-hour shifts at Adana City Hospital to create psycho-social and post-traumatic support mechanisms.
We have made the first installations for a container city to provide temporary shelter in the area next to Malatya Erman Ilıcak Science High School. While we have hosted 1,150 people here so far, this container city will accommodate 1,000 more earthquake victims once completed. In addition, we are continuing our preparations for a second container city consisting of 1,500 containers in order to provide long-term living space for approximately 10,000 people.
We have opened our shopping mall and hospital projects in the region for the use of all people affected by the earthquake. In addition to the essential relief items provided by Rönesans, we have directly delivered 203 trucks of emergency supplies to earthquake victims, including those collected by our employees and citizens at the shopping mall.
Our Gaziantep City Hospital construction site has met the shelter and basic needs of over 1,000 citizens, and we have offered dormitories to the families of our employees at our construction sites in the region and at our city hospital facilities which have earthquake isolators. We have also transferred 51 of our employees with their families to the guesthouse in Ankara upon request.
Kahramanmaraş Piazza Shopping Mall has become the region's central base for distributing aid to citizens. We have set up tents here to provide shelter to 1,000 earthquake victims and meet their basic needs. In addition, this week, we launched a children's tent where children can play games and watch cartoons.
We have been fully mobilized since the first moment of the initial earthquake, addressing urgent issues and critical humanitarian needs while conducting successful search and rescue operations. Now, we are preparing to take steps to find long-term sustainable solutions for the earthquake victims and our citizens in the region.
At Rönesans, we are constantly working to support anyone affected by this disaster; we stand in solidarity with our great country and its courageous people during these distressing times. We will overcome these adversities together.
We believe the only way to ensure a sustainable future is to work constructively with future generations.
With the ‘Design the Sustainable Future’ competition, our aim is to develop common ideas to build a viable future together with university students who represent the next generation of professionals by focusing on sustainability.
Our aims:
To spread a 'sustainability' culture among university students to ensure that future generations live in healthier, more environmentally friendly buildings
To guarantee that the project requirements related to waste reduction are correctly determined, along with standardized techniques and methods
To enable students from different departments to come together to work as a team and share ideas
To raise awareness about R&D projects related to innovation, sustainable technologies, lean construction, and green systems
To create alternative solutions by developing different perspectives to fight against global problems such as the climate crisis
Subject and Theme of the Competition
The subject of the ‘Design the Sustainable Future’ competition is ‘Biomimicry Designs Inspired by Nature.’
Biomimicry
Biomimicry is a practice where we examine and mimic nature, emulating its time-tested patterns and strategies, models, systems, processes, and elements to solve human problems. Animals, plants, and microorganisms are experienced engineers; they know what works and how to survive on this planet.
The features developed by organisms to combat problems are similar to the features we employ to tackle the significant issues we currently face. The necessity of taking precautions against problems such as climate change, natural disasters, and environmental effects caused by population growth is now an indisputable fact. When we look at nature, we believe we can produce workable solutions to our problems using methods developed by organisms as references.
Competition Categories
Building Design Category: Building projects are required to be designed with the Biomimicry principle, provided that they meet at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Product Design Category: Product designs need to be inspired by nature, with the Biomimicry approach, which don’t harm the environment and society while fulfilling our needs and meeting at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Social Innovation Category: Regardless of your department or year, we are eagerly waiting to receive your ideas for solving social and environmental problems. For example, you can participate in the competition by developing an idea or a new system to improve an application method or process for social sustainability and environmental and social conditions.
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