Research
M.Sc. Thesis Supervised
| Student Name | Date of Completion of the Thesis | Subject of the Thesis | Supervisor | |
| Co-Supervisor | ||||
| 1 | Jamal Lababidi | November 1988 | Concrete construction under different climatic conditions and factors affecting the cost estimate | Talat Birgönül |
| 2 | Ramazan Çuhadar | February 1989 | A survey on the construction equipment supply and importation of Turkish overseas contractors upon completion of their contracts | Talat Birgönül |
| 3 | Vuslat Özkaramete | February 1989 | Probabilistic quantity estimation of basic construction items by linear regression method | Talat Birgönül |
| 4 | Bassem Jarkas | June 1989 | A computer program related to some standard earthwork equipments | Talat Birgönül |
| 5 | Hakan Çaka | June 1989 | Linear construction planning technique | Talat Birgönül |
| 6 | Tuncer Şahin | February 1991 | Thermal insulation and energy conservation measures for low-cost housing | Asım Yeğinobalı |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 7 | Ahmet Korkmaz | June 1991 | A methodology for the evaluation of proposals tendered on the basis of Built-Operate-Transfer model | Talat Birgönül |
| 8 | Erta Taşkınsoy | December 1991 | The integration of CPM and material management in project management | Talat Birgönül |
| Canan Sepil | ||||
| 9 | Abdulrezak Nurhussein Mohamed | January 1992 | Effect of inflation and payment delay on profit margin under unit price contract and the compensation methods | Talat Birgönül |
| 10 | Ayşe Sibel Yanıkömeroğlu | January 1992 | An elastic timing method proposed for construction schedules | Talat Birgönül |
| 11 | Şeref Topkaya | February 1992 | An expert system approach to concrete supervising and pre-cast connections | Talat Birgönül |
| Yasemin Özdoğan | ||||
| 12 | Can Erdoğan | September 1992 | Measures for improving quality and maintaining economy in low-cost housing projects | Talat Birgönül |
| 13 | Abdalla Ömer Mahmud | September 1993 | Critical review of quality and time control aspects in some major Libyan construction projects | Asım Yeğinobalı |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 14 | Arzu Barçın Yılmaz | September 1993 | A case study on the interaction between time and cost constituents of a mass housing construction project | Talat Birgönül |
| Erkan Şahmalı | ||||
| 15 | Mustafa Tunç Erk | January 1995 | The French model of water distribution, sewage collection and treatment administration under private company management | Talat Birgönül |
| 16 | Irmak Renda | June 1995 | Turkish contracting sector: An organisational survey of Turkish contracting companies | Talat Birgönül |
| 17 | Aylin Aslan | September 1995 | An evaluation of value management practice in Turkish construction sector | Metin Arıkan |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 18 | Birol Akpınar | September 1995 | An expert system approach based on Şanlıurfa irrigation tunnel construction experiences | Talat Birgönül |
| 19 | İrfan Çetin | January 1996 | Current construction quality control systems used in Turkey and suggestions for further improvements | Talat Birgönül |
| Nadi Bakır | ||||
| 20 | Deniz Elmas | September 1996 | Risk analysis of construction projects based on unit prices under inflationary conditions | Talat Birgönül |
| Asım Yeğinobalı | ||||
| 21 | Mehmetcan Topuz | January 1996 | Time, cost and quality management of mass housing projects | Talat Birgönül |
| 22 | Murat Şefik Yazan | January 1996 | Management of political risks in public non-building construction projects | Talat Birgönül |
| 23 | Mustafa Kaan | January 1996 | Economic analysis of multi-stage housing production model | Talat Birgönül |
| 24 | Ö. Mutlu Sinman | January 1996 | An overview of the CIS construction market and guidelines for foreign construction companies | Talat Birgönül |
| 25 | İrem (Dikmen) Özdoğan | December 1996 | Risk management of BOT projects in developing countries | Talat Birgönül |
| 26 | Ertan Kökçüoğlu | December 1997 | Quality management in construction | Metin Arıkan |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 27 | Mehmet Ali Ersarı | January 1998 | Risk analysis and cost simulation of coastal projects | Ayşen Ergin |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 28 | Ayşegül Petek Yener | January 1998 | Risk perception and trends of Turkish construction companies | Talat Birgönül |
| 29 | Atilla Yurdakul | March 1998 | CPM (Critical Path Method) applications and problems faced in Turkish construction sector | Engin Keyder |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 30 | Ebru Gökçek | March 1998 | Evaluation of the subcontracting system in Turkey | Metin Arıkan |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 31 | Abdulkadir Çevik | April 1998 | Subcontracting relationship between subcontractors and contractors in Turkish construction sector | Metin Arıkan |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 32 | Dilruba Özmen | November 1998 | Development of a quality assurance system for highways in Turkey | Ayhan İnal |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 33 | Çağlar Sürücü | December 1998 | Investigation of State Procurement Law and amendments necessary to make it consistent with the World Bank practices | Talat Birgönül |
| 34 | Mete Metin | December 1998 | Performance of Turkish contractors working abroad | Talat Birgönül |
| 35 | Derya Türk Türkan | April 1999 | ISO 9000 Standards in the Turkish construction industry | Talat Birgönül |
| 36 | Sinan Öztabak | February 2000 | Critical review of construction machinery costs within the context of General Price Analysis | Talat Birgönül |
| 37 | Levent Çağrı Ogan | May 2000 | Effects of economic recession periods on Turkish construction companies | Talat Birgönül |
| 38 | Sibel Önen | May 2000 | Problems faced by foreign contractors working in Turkey | Talat Birgönül |
| 39 | Nilhan Özkan (Erdal) | May 2000 | Refinement of Benefit Cost analysis results for highway projects | Talat Birgönül |
| 40 | Gökhan Pişkin | May 2000 | A comparative study on the reliability-based risk assessment in project management of coastal structures | Ayşen Ergin |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 41 | Burak Güvenç | August 2000 | A generic algorithm for multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling | Talat Birgönül |
| 42 | Göksu Günay | May 2001 | Dispute creation and resolution mechanisms of Turkish construction sector in public projects | Talat Birgönül |
| 43 | Savaş Deren | August 2001 | Value management approach for the selection of construction materials for the buildings owned by Air Force Command | Talat Birgönül |
| 44 | Semiha Kızıltaş | November 2002 | Organizational effectiveness in Turkish construction companies: An Artificial Neural Network based prediction model | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 45 | İsmail Özcenk | December 2002 | Marketing in the Turkish construction industry | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 46 | Sami Umut Artuk | December 2002 | An innovation management model for construction companies: Case studies from the Turkish construction industry | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 47 | Tunca Ataoğlu | December 2002 | An organizational learning framework as a driver of organizational performance of Turkish construction companies | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 48 | Ebru Çanga | December 2002 | Impact of construction management graduate education on professional life | Talat Birgönül |
| 49 | Beliz Özorhon | April 2004 | Organizational memory in construction companies: A Case-Based Reasoning model as an organizational learning tool | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 50 | Tuncay Demirel | April 2005 | An expert system for the quantification of fault rates in construction fall accidents | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 51 | A. Arif Ergin | July 2005 | Determination of contingency for international construction projects during bidding stage | Rıfat Sönmez |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 52 | Ergun Usta | August 2005 | Comparison of international federation of consulting engineers and general specification for public works contracts from risk management perspective | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 53 | Ali Özge Ilgar | October 2005 | Quantification of acceleration claims: a simplified approach | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 54 | Arif Erdem Arıkan | November 2005 | Development of a risk management decision support system for international construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 55 | Ahmet Kemal Gür | December 2005 | Case based decision support system for bid markup estimation of international construction projects at the tender stage | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 56 | Aslı Akçamete | December 2006 | Country risk assessment in the construction industry | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 57 | Caner Anaç | February 2007 | Development of a risk assessment tool for post-project appraisal | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 58 | Amani Suliman Bu-Qammaz | June 2007 | Risk assessment of international construction projects using the analytic network process | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 59 | Güzide Atasoy | July 2007 | Using cognitive maps for modeling project success | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 60 | Nurdan Eğilmezer Şapçı | July 2007 | Organizational decline and bankruptcy prediction model for the Turkish construction companies | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 61 | Köksal Eren | September 2007 | Critical success factors for partnering in the Turkish construction industry | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 62 | Gülbin Özcan | July 2008 | A generic risk and vulnerability assessment framework for international construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 63 | Gülşah Fidan | August 2008 | A risk and vulnerability ontology for construction projects | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 64 | Tanyeli Güneş | December 2008 | Developing a strategic information system for construction companies | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 65 | Muhammet Alper Yiğit | February 2009 | Contract management behavior of Turkish construction companies in international projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 66 | Ahmet Hamdi Özer | July 2009 | Development of an activity based assessment tool using integrated duration- cost influence network | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 67 | Eren Cangul | February 2010 | Development of an expert system for the quantification of fault rates in traffic accidents | Talat Birgönül |
| S. Osman Acar | ||||
| 68 | Özlem Yavuzyılmaz | May 2010 | Institutionalization of construction firms: Turkish contractors’ case | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 69 | Kıvanç Karakaş | May 2010 | Development of a multi agent system for negotiation of cost overrun in international construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 70 | Onur Çelenligil | July 2010 | Analogical reasoning for risk assessment and cost overrun estimation in construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 71 | Matineh Eybpoosh | August 2010 | Identification of risk paths in international construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 72 | Aydın Sakın | February 2011 | The route map of Turkish international contracting services- lessons learnt and recommendations for the future | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 73 | Nuray Gökdemir | May 2011 | Identification and representation of information items required for vulnerability assessment and multi-hazard emergency response operations | Talat Birgönül |
| 74 | Mohammad Kashef | August 2011 | Critical Success Factors for Build Operate Transfer (BOT) projects: Lessons learned from airport projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 75 | Maryam Daneshvar | October 2011 | Analysis of organisational routines to understand change in construction: The case of Turkish construction industry | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 76 | Noyan Ercan | December 2011 | A decision support tool for feasibility assessment of hydro electrical power plant projects | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 77 | Gözde Bilgin | December 2011 | An ontology-based approach for delay analysis | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 78 | Cumhur Ceyhan | February 2012 | Occupational health and safety, hazard identification, risk assessment, determining controls: Case study on cut and cover underground stations and tunnel construction | Talat Birgönül |
| 79 | Fatma Pelin Aktuğ | March 2012 | Comparison of FIDIC conditions of contract (1999) and UNCITRAL legal guide from prospective disputes and claims perspective | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 80 | Murat Ayhan | July 2012 | A model-based guidance and vulnerability assessment approach for facilities under the threat of multi-hazard emergencies | Talat Birgönül |
| 81 | Aydın Ghaziani | August 2012 | A fuzzy delay assessment tool for construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 82 | Şinasi Bektaş | August 2012 | Shortcomings of delay analysis practices: A case study using an integrated approach | Talat Birgönül |
| 83 | Babak Rahmani Mirshekarlou | September 2012 | A taxonomy for causes of changes in construction | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 84 | Amin Haghgooie | December 2012 | Developing a knowledge taxonomy for business development in construction companies: A case of Turkish construction industry | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 85 | Açelya Ecem Yıldız | December 2012 | Development of a knowledge based risk mapping tool for international construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 86 | Bartuğ Kemal Akgül | June 2014 | Social network analysis of construction companies operating in international markets: The case of Turkish contractors | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 87 | Şemsettin Balta | June 2014 | Buffer sizing model with fuzzy assessment on concrete gravity dam and HEPP projects | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 88 | Hacı Hüseyin Erol | June 2014 | Identifying the effects of lean construction principles on variability of project duration | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 89 | Ehsanullah Hayat | June 2014 | Factors affecting the risk ratings assigned by decision-makers under uncertain situations: The case of international construction | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 90 | Selman Yalçın | September 2014 | Cost comparison of falling from fragile roof type accidents in terms of occupational health and safety | Talat Birgönül |
| Gülru Yıldız | ||||
| 91 | Ovic M’bi Mabiala | January 2015 | Turkish contractors in the project finance of power projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 92 | Osman Can Ürel | February 2015 | The evaluation of construction projects realized with Public Private Partnership model in Turkey | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 93 | Sahra Mohammadi | September 2015 | The future of green building contracts in Turkey | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 94 | Özgür Sönmez | May 2016 | Glocalization in international construction projects | Talat Birgönül |
| 95 | Muhammed Ercan | February 2017 | A study on the price escalation system in public construction contracts in Turkey | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 96 | Görkem Eken | September 2017 | Development of a lessons learned management process model and a web-based tool for construction companies | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 97 | Beste Özyurt | January 2018 | Similarity assessment of countries to facilitate learning from international construction projects | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 98 | Gianni Berk Kubin | April 2018 | Institutionalization process in a family firm: A case study | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 99 | Muhammed Boztemur | September 2018 | Exploration of Black Swans and their impacts on construction companies: The case of Arab Spring | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 100 | Çağatay Arslan | January 2019 | Risk identification and assessment for PPP Integrated Health Campus Projects in Turkey. A case study: Kayseri Integrated Health Campus | Talat Birgönül |
| Onur B. Tokdemir | ||||
| 101 | Pınar Bilgin | July 2019 | Project-based innovation performance assessment in the housing sector: A case study using innovation radar | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 102 | Cansu Coşkun | September 2019 | Development of a risk assessment method for sustainable construction of megaprojects | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 103 | Shima Ebrahimi | September 2019 | Awareness of the Turkish construction industry towards industry 4.0 technologies and concepts | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 104 | Cenk Tanrıverdi | November 2019 | A casual mapping approach for the analysis of construction disputes | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 105 | Aycan Dumlu | September 2020 | AFMEA-Based methodology for delay analysis of construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 106 | Gizem Bilgin | April 2021 | An exploratory study on complexity in mega construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 107 | Elif Karakoçak | June 2021 | A tool for visualization of risk information: The Risk Box | Talat Birgünül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 108 | Fatih Kaya | September 2021 | Investigation of legal issues and contractual considerations associated with BIM use in construction projects | Aslı Akçamete Güngör |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 109 | Anıl Yılmaz | November 2021 | Development of an activity-based lessons learned process model and a tool to support scheduling decisions in construction firms | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 110 | Kıvanç Umut Ejder | February 2022 | An exploratory study on causes and impacts of variation orders in Public- Private Partnership projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 111 | Yusuf Kemal Erdekli | June 2022 | Prediction of the house price index of Turkey: A comparative study of multiple linear regression and artificial neural network models | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 112 | Pegah Shokouhi | August 2022 | Using post-project reviews for risk assessment of construction projects | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 113 | Bartu Or | January 2023 | A real options approach to valuation of photovoltaic power investments on rooftops of residential areas in Turkey | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 114 | Muhammed Tunahan Beyhan | August 2023 | A machine learning approach to seismic risk assessment of reinforced concrete structures | Talat Birgönül |
| Rıfat Sönmez | ||||
| 115 | Alper Aslantaş | August 2023 | Bayesian belief network-based contractor profitability risk assessment for PPP hospital projects in Turkey | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 116 | Mustafa Erdal | September 2023 | Identification of critical risk factors affecting waste generation in the Turkish construction industry | Talat Birgönül |
| Hüseyin Erol | ||||
| 117 | Berkan Demir | April 2024 | Enhancing circular economy adoption in the industrial steel construction industry: A blockchain-based information flow framework | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 118 | Tolgahan Özkan | April 2024 | Comparison of Time Slice Windows Analysis with the delay analysis methods frequently used in the construction industry: A case study | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen |
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Ph.D. Thesis Supervised
| Student Name | Date of Completion of the Thesis | Subject of the Thesis | Supervisor | |
| Co-Supervisor | ||||
| 1 | Aynur Kazaz | November 1997 | Toplu konut inşaatlarında düşük kaliteden kaynaklanan maliyetler (Fırat Üniversitesi) | Talat Birgönül |
| Asım Yeğinobalı | ||||
| 2 | Can Elmar Balas | January 1998 | A reliability-based risk assessment model for coastal projects | Ayşen Ergin |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 3 | İrem Dikmen | April 2001 | Strategic decision making in construction companies: An artificial neural network based decision support system for international market selection | Talat Birgönül |
| 4 | Gökhan Arslan | October 2002 | İhale yönetimi bilgi sistemleri: İnşaat projelerinde elektronik ihale teklif yöntemi sistemi (Anadolu Üniversitesi) | Mustafa Tuncan |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 5 | Beliz Özorhon | October 2007 | Modeling the performance of international construction joint ventures | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 6 | Cenk Budayan | July 2008 | Strategic group analysis: Strategic perspective, differentiation and performance in construction | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 7 | Zeynep Işık | November 2009 | A conceptual performance measurement framework for construction industry | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 8 | Emre Caner Akçay | December 2014 | Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Multi-Agent systems to estimate financial feasibility of HEPP projects tendered on a BOT basis: A Case study from Turkey | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 9 | Mustafa Özdemir | May 2015 | A fuzzy Structural Equation Model to analyze relationships between determinants of safety performance in construction sites: Development of a safety performance index assessment tool | Talat Birgönül |
| 10 | Babak Rahmani Mirshekarlou | December 2018 | An investigation of material waste management in prefabricated construction industry and developing an integrated waste management tool | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 11 | Gülsüm Çağıl Köseoğlu Balta | May 2019 | A Bayesian Belief Network based delay risk assessment tool for tunnel projects- BBN Tunnel | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 12 | Murat Ayhan | December 2019 | Development of dispute prediction and resolutiom method selection models for construction disputes | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 13 | H.Hüseyin Erol | November 2020 | Incorporating complexity into risk management: An integrated risk assessment process for mega construction projects | İrem Dikmen |
| Talat Birgönül | ||||
| 14 | Görkem Eken | December 2022 | Using Natural Language Processing for automated construction contract review during risk assessment at the bidding stage | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 15 | Beste Özyurt Ersöz | September 2024 | Using digital technologies to facilitate identification of political risks in international construction projects | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen | ||||
| 16 | Saeed Kamali | February 2025 | Conceptual framework to evaluate and enhance resilience of Public-Private Partnership Projects | Talat Birgönül |
| İrem Dikmen |
M. Talat Birgönül
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