CEVRE DOSTU YESIL BINALAR DERNEGI IKTISADI ISLETMESI

Their core work

Cevre Dostu Yesil Binalar (Environment Friendly Green Buildings Association) is a Turkish NGO based in Istanbul that advocates for and promotes sustainable, energy-efficient building practices. Their H2020 participation places them squarely within the European building renovation movement — specifically as Turkey's national node in the BUILD UPON network, a pan-European initiative to create coordinated renovation strategies across member and associated states. In practice, they mobilize local construction industry actors, policymakers, and civil society around building decarbonisation agendas in Turkey. Their contribution to European projects is primarily stakeholder engagement, national coalition-building, and translating EU renovation policy goals into a Turkish context.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

The organisation's trajectory is narrow but consistent: both projects are iterations of the same programme (BUILD UPON → BUILD UPON2), suggesting they deepened rather than broadened their focus over time. The first phase (2015-2017) centred on establishing a regional action network and structural base for renovation coordination. The second phase (2019-2021) shifted emphasis toward public sector leadership and decarbonisation capacity — indicating a maturation from network-building to policy influence. There is no evidence of diversification into other energy topics or sectors beyond buildings.

They are moving from broad multi-stakeholder mobilisation toward influencing public sector renovation policy, which positions them as a potential implementation partner for Turkey's compliance with EU-aligned building energy directives.

How they like to work

This organisation has never led an H2020 project — both participations are as a consortium partner, consistent with their role as a national representative node rather than a research driver. They operate exclusively in large, pan-European CSA consortia (17 partners across 17 countries), which is typical for BUILD UPON-type policy networks designed to have one national actor per country. Working with them means accessing Turkish building sector networks and policy channels, not research capacity.

Their H2020 network spans 17 partners across 17 countries — an unusually broad geographic footprint for just two projects, reflecting the deliberate pan-European architecture of the BUILD UPON programme. Their connections are concentrated in the European building renovation policy space rather than any single geographic cluster.

What sets them apart

They appear to be Turkey's primary civil society representative in the European coordinated building renovation movement, giving them a niche no other Turkish organisation in this dataset likely fills. For any consortium needing a Turkish green buildings partner — particularly for policy outreach, national renovation plans, or construction sector engagement — they are a natural first contact. Their value is access and local legitimacy in the Turkish market, not technical or research depth.

Highlights from their portfolio

• BUILD UPON
  Founding participation in a flagship 2015 pan-European renovation network — one of the earliest and most structurally ambitious CSA projects in the EU building energy sector.
• BUILD UPON2
  Continuation project confirming sustained commitment and established credibility within the European building decarbonisation policy network, with a sharpened public sector focus.