Palandöken Team

Hello, I am Cemil Çolak, a 4th year student at Erzurum Technical University, in the Department of Civil Engineering. I am in the Palandöken Team for the Earthquake Resistant Building Design Competition of the Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (DASK). Our team was established in 2018 to participate in DASK's Earthquake Resistant Building Design Competition and continues its activities in the Project Rooms and Mechanical Laboratories in the Faculty of Engineering on campus. Students of the Department of Civil Engineering apply to our team and we apply to the competition with groups of 4-5 people in one year. Since we spend a lot of time on the competition, in order to be first, our work continues at the end of the semester and is constant. We attended the TCIP Earthquake Resistant Building Design Competition in 2019 and achieved the top grade in Turkey. Our group is open to all students of the civil engineering and architecture departments who want to improve themselves in the field of construction. According to the tasks you have in the team you are able to develop yourself in those areas that you work upon. In these areas, you will develop your skills and teamwork skills in the creation of building models, and at the same time you will have the opportunity to put into practice the basic theoretical knowledge of civil engineering. I wish success to those friends taking the entrance exam. If you choose Erzurum Technical University, you can join us to design earthquake resistant buildings.