BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

CONSTRUCTION: As defined in Article 5 of construction Law No. 3194 this covers construction on land and in water; permanent and temporary; public and private; above ground and underground, construction including additions, alterations and repairs as well as immovable and movable establishments.

BUILDING: A building is any independent structure comprising one or more rooms or other spaces, covered by a roof; enclosed with external walls or dividing walls which extend from the foundations to the roof;and intended for residential, agricultural, industrial, commercial, cultural, etc.. purposes.

NUMBER OF BUILDINGS: The number of construction permits issued by municipalities for new buildings and for additions to already existing buildings; and the number of buildings shown on the occupancy permits for completed, partially completed construction, or for additions to already existing buildings. In the tables concerning buildings burned and demolished, the number of partly or totally burned or demolished buildings is included.

FLOOR AREA: The total floor area of all floors within the outer walls of buildings which can be occupied, including basements and penthouse floors, but excluding balconies, light spaces and inner courtyards.

VALUE: In collaboration with government departments and other institutions, the construction unit of "per square meter" was chosen. The most commonly used construction types were defined as well as proportions in the use of construction materials and labor. The standard construction terms were used beginning in January 1979. The constructions square meter unit costs in all provinces have been calculated based an periodic information on construction materials and labor costs collected by the regional and statistical directorates of SIS.

The construction square meter unit prices have been calculated by old method for bearing wall construction. For reinforced concrete buildings, square meter unit prices at provinces level have been calculated by using "Building construction cost index" in the base year 1991.

NUMBER OF STORIES: The total number including the basement, ground, floor, penthouse and any others.

INVESTOR: Identifies for whom the building was constructed. It does not identify by whom the building was constructed.

USE OF BUILDING: Denotes the use to which the building will be put. For construction with more than one use, such as an apartment building with ground floor shops, separate forms are filled out by SIS for each use. However, the second form is included in commercial building figures and not in the residential building figures although municipalities show them on one occupancy permit or building permit.

RESIDENTIAL BUILDING: A building used for residence such as house and/or apartment building.

HOUSE: A building intended for residential use with one or two dwelling units, regardless of the number of stories.

APARTMENT HOUSE: Buildings intended for residential use with three or more dwelling units,regardless of the number of stories.

DWELLING UNIT: A separate and independent enclosure used for residence by a single person, a family or a group of persons having a covered roof and a separate access to a street, corridor or common place.

ROOM: A space of at least four squar meters in size enclosed by walls reaching from the floor to the ceiling and two meters high is a room. Bathrooms, toilets, passageways, corridors, balconies, cellars, and woodsheds, regardless of their size, are not considered as rooms.

COMMERCIAL BUILDING: Shop, store, mall, cinema, theatre, hotel, motel, pension, restaurant, casino and any others intended for commerical purposes.

Pharmacy, bank and insurance, weighing machine building, covered marketplace, storehouse, warehouse, garage, hangar, etc.

INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS: Factory, workshop, studio and repair shops and others

Additional buildings inside industrial areas (storehouse, warehouse, garage, hangar, dormitory, dining hall, guesthouse), cold stor ageareas, slaughterhouse buildings, etc.

Medical buildings:pital, maternity home, sanatorium, rural health centre, animal hospital, other health institutions, etc.

Social buildings:Societies , trade union and club buildings, camp buildings, dormitory for students, prisons, etc.

Others: Thermal springs, hot springs, mineral water springs, baths, bathing cabins, etc.

CULTURAL BUILDINGS:Educational buildings, sporting facilities, and others.

Archives, museums, libraries, radio and TV stations and broadcasting studios.

RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS: Mosques, masjids (prayerroom), tombs, building housing a muftis, offices.

ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDINGS: Buildings used for all kinds of administrative and public services.

OTHER BUILDINGS: Terminals and enclosed parking facilities underground tunnels, wharves etc. Used for the purpose of transportation. Farms and non-residential farm buildings, warehouses, hangars, stock-feeding barns, stables straw-rick, breeding barns, cereal cribs, water towers and cold storage facilities used for the purpose of agriculture. Mosque fountains, public toilets, shelters, and used for the public.

STRUCTURAL SYSTEM: The system of vertical support used to carry the weight of the building.

FRAME CONSTRUCTION: A structural system in which the weight of the building is carried to the foundations by means of a steel, concrete or wooden frame, with the walls formed by filling voids between the frame with some other material.

BEARING WALL CONSTRUCTION: A structural system in which the weight of the building is carried to the foundations directly by means of the walls.

The aim of forming a building construction price index was to determine the quantities of inputs used in building construction and to show the yearly cost changes of these quantities of inputs. This study began in 1989 and was concluded and results were published first in November 1992. 1991 was determined as the base year and a weighted Laspeyres index formula was used in this study.

Out of a total of 295 items in the building construction cost index, 20 encompass workmanship, 7 are machinery, 146 are construction materials and 122 are installation materials. Prices of these items are gathered from 24 provinces (for every item, prices are collected from 3 seperate establishments). These prices are collected on the 15th of the last month of every quarter from 1292 establishments which are producers, wholesalers, or retailers who do business with construction firms and contractors. The building construction cost index is calculated and published quarterly.