"Noise Doctors" at Bahçeşehir University!

BUTECH is on the trail of noise! It is organizing a conference on noise maps and noise monitoring systems.

Environmental noise, an increasingly significant environmental problem in our country, is an important pollutant affecting our people's health and quality of life. However, our society has not yet reached sufficient awareness of a problem that affects its life so greatly.

ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE MAPS AND NOISE MONITORING SYSTEMS

The Bahçeşehir University Technology Development Unit BUTECH has organized a conference to emphasize that noise need not be an ordinary part of daily life, that it can be prevented by various methods and that awareness of noise pollution must be raised, and to provide information on "noise maps," the most important tool for revealing the current state of noise, and on noise monitoring systems.

At the conference, in addition to topics such as noise maps, the introduction of noise maps in legislation, preparation techniques and the use of maps, the training provided by the University in line with the protocol between the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Türkiye and the University will be discussed and sample maps will be shown. Since, according to the Regulation on the Assessment and Management of Environmental Noise, strategic noise maps must be prepared by 2013 for all settlements with a population exceeding 250,000, major roads with more than 6 million vehicle passages a year, major railways with more than 60,000 train passages and major airports with more than 50,000 movements a year, the main aim of the conference is to bring the subject to the attention of society.

The conference will be held on Friday, 3 December 2010, between 15:00 and 17:00 at Bahçeşehir University in the Fazıl Say Hall (Beşiktaş Campus).

SPEAKERS

Opening and introduction: Çınar D. Kurra
Session 1a. Fundamentals: Prof. Dr. Selma Kurra
Session 1b. Mapping Studies and Training at BUTECH: Levent Dal
Session 2. Noise monitoring stations and dynamic mapping: Daniel Vaucher de la Croix and Ferit Bonfil