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    Master Thesis
    A Guideline Proposal for Acoustic Issues in Sustainable Building Assesment Tools Office Case
    (2017) Kara, Dilara; Kahraman, İlker
    Because of the rapid depletion of world resources, sustainability fact that is entered into our life and open-plan offices that are leaded the way with the increase of the working population are most widely used architectural nation in todays. But unfortunately, when designin the open plan offices with concern of sustainability, where is spend most of life, we are not thinking about hearing that is the most important, unobstructed and irreversible part of the human sense. Certification systems are created to support quality of life and energy conservation, but it has been observed that the acoustic requirements are not sufficiently included in the certification systems. In this thesis, studies have been conducted on the improvement of acoustic issues that appears to be missing in green building certification systems. A check list is prepared in the result of studies that include improvement suggestions and this checklist is compared with the green building certification systems. The proposal of thesis, that is the strengthening of the acoustic issues in certifications systems.