The Importance of Using Green Building and Green Building Use in Turkey

In an increasingly globalized world, climate change, pollution, water problem and the disappearance of natural resources are making the concept of sustainability more and more important with the effect of global warming. As a result of sustainability concept and architecture, “sustainable architecture” emerges. Sustainable architecture; As in all the world, which raised a very important issue in Turkey and an increase in work in this area. When we look around, we see that buildings and skyscrapers are increasing day by day. During the construction of these buildings and skyscrapers, many natural resources are consumed and serious damage to the nature is caused by the release of the wastes emitted to the environment. Since we cannot stop the building sector, we should produce solutions that support the concept of 'green building' and its use, which aims to reduce environmental pollution and energy consumption caused by this sector. In this context, this study focused on the importance of the concept of green building and green building topics of use in Turkey.