Erkut Akin

Fiksatif is a provider for contemporary artists, galleries and museums that comprehensively handles the project from concept to installation, also offers guidance, technical solutions, art production to the artist as well as restoration of an art piece. Fiksatif is customizing a solution for each project with high quality during each step of that process. Once we receive an artist’s concept, we conduct feasibility studies, source the material and then produce the piece. We also monitor sub‐contractors to ensure the highest standards of craftsmanship. - I was responsible for all kinds of indoor and outdoor installation of independent galleries, exhibitions and museums such as Salt Galata, Salt Beyoğlu, Contemporary Art, Tomtom Art Gallery, and positioning the works according to the design of the Curator or Architect, providing the works, according to the desired interior design of the place (painting, wall construction, wall breaking, mezzanine floor construction ... etc.). https://fiksatif.com/

Within the scope of the Project of 1.7M TL, the existing bituminous joints materials that have lost their strength and flexibility between the concrete anodes on the Runway and Apron of Adıyaman Airport has been removed and the new joint filling material has been cast (in total 87.000m). - I was responsible for all project-related details such as the whole follow-up of the project, reporting to the main employer, procurement of material and mechanical tools, the creation of the workers' team, the creation of the business plan, and the follow-up of the appropriate work. - I reduced the 4-month period granted for the project to 3 months and 5 days with the right planning, strong team management and provided an additional gain of 62,000 TL to my existing company.

- Worked as a Field Design Engineer at the Istanbul 3th Airport Site (150M passenger greenfield airport development, which has a construction zone of 7,659-hectare on the North east of Istanbul ). The scope of work covers site support of airside including to provide the technical support that might be required during the construction period for the air side design documents submitted within the scope of the Contract, review and comment on the Shop drawings to be prepared by the construction sub-contractors working on the air Side, in terms of their conformance with the design documents submitted within the scope of the Contract here with, to comment on the air side design documents conformance for DHMİ (Turkish Standards) submission, to establish coordination and communication between IGA (Contractor) and AECOM's air side design team working in offices abroad. - Worked 8 months on the project IKDMP at the Contractor office. The scope of work covers providing a spatial direction to guide the future growth and transformation of Istanbul to 2036. Studies and Analysis, Determining Development Strategies and Preparing Schemes that shall form the basis for the Urban Transformation Projects (for Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality) to form the basis for the plans to be developed with the urban transformation perspective for the whole province of Istanbul (the city whit the population of 16 million). Planed an integrated transport network that supports the urban hierarchy, reduces the need to travel by private car, ensures jobs and services are accessible by a range of modes, in particular walking, cycling and public transport. The current traffic volume has been calculated, analyzed, and future traffic has planned. Acting as Transportation Planning Team Road Engineer. Designed some urban transportation fields, cycle roads and cycle bridges, helped for the preparing of the reports of traffic analyzes, and worked for the closure of the project.

As a student at my last year at Istanbul Technical University, I worked as General Assistant Secretary Asst.Dr. Serdar Bilgi's assistant at the Rector's Office and planned some bicycle roads around the university.

Field Engineering internship at foundation construction at Tbilisi Airport New Arrival Terminal Building. The scope of work is to complete the construction of the new arrivals terminal which will be occupy a total area of 12 000 sq.m. and 5 boarding bridges, 6 bus gates. Acting as Site Engineer (Intern) and worked at the foundation stage and monitored and reported the reinforced concrete manufacturing of the radial foundation and its columns.

The Istanbul Airport project, which is one of the largest airports in the world and has a construction cost of $ 10.4 billion. Once fully completed by 2025, the airport will have six sets of runways (eight in total), 16 taxiways, and a total annual passenger capacity of 150 million passengers. If fully expanded to a capacity of 200 million, the airport will exhibit four terminal buildings with interconnecting rail access that combine for a total indoor area of 3,200,000 m2. The airport will also have a 6,500,000 m2 apron with a parking capacity of 500 aircraft, VIP lounges, cargo and general aviation facilities, a state palace, and indoor and outdoor parking that can accommodate up to 70,000 cars. Acted as BIM Engineer (intern) at the BIM team at IGA, which is the main contractor of Istanbul Airport, worked on to integrate drawings from all design disciplines on BIM, which is a single system, and to identify and resolve conflicts. I ensured that the data was recorded in the system and reached the servers in the field.

The Eurasia Tunnel, which has a construction value of $1,25B, is a road tunnel in Istanbul, Turkey, crossing underneath the Bosphorus strait. The tunnel is a 5.4 km (3.4 mi) double-deck tunnel, also on the Asian part of Istanbul with a 14.6 km (9.1 mi) route including the tunnel approach roads. It crosses the Bosphorus beneath the seabed at a maximum depth of 106 m. My responsibility was to be monitoring the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)'s, which is one of the largest in the world with 16 meter diameter, progression and reporting to the project office day by day. At the same time, I did some quality testing of the concrete.