SİF Construction Equipment Moved Into New Headquarters At Orhanli

SİF Construction Equipment moved its headquarters from Maltepe, where it’s been providing services for 10 years, to its new building in Orhanlı-Tuzla. The increase in the number of personnel as well as the need for a bigger warehouse for replacement parts, directly proportional to the company’s workload, led the company to this pursuit. Work life in the new offices, picked after a thorough search and designed to fit the needs, began in August.

Offering the employees a much more contemporary and comfortable workspace compared to the Maltepe office, the new headquarters has twice the office space at 1.600 m2, and four times the warehouse space at 2.100 m2. The 135 m2 PDI center and the 3.600 m2 open area that allows for the equipment to be exhibited are much larger than the Maltepe office. With the amenity space on the top floor of the three-story center that includes a café, gym, lounge and auditorium, SİF Construction Equipment is a candidate to be the Google of Turkey’s construction equipment sector.

Growing Stronger With New Clients

Universal Handlers, working on long-term leasing of forklifts and warehouse equipment since 2010, grows stronger with new clients. Serving almost all sectors of the economy, Universal Handlers creates a difference with experience in various sectors and service level.

One of the important clients to join the company’s portfolio in the second quarter of 2014 was Golf Food. Serving under Yıldız Holding, Ülker Golf Food has been active in the production and marketing of ice cream and other refrigerated products. Golf has a yearly production of 160 million liters and markets its products in 13 countries. Universal Handlers first began working with Golf Food on electric forklifts at their Bursa plant. As Ülker Golf expressed their pleasure with the service level provided by Universal Handlers, the cooperation between two companies is expected to continue and grow.

Another important addition to the client portfolio was Kılıçoğlu Tiles. Having been active in the construction elements sector for years, the company is one of the oldest in its field in Turkey. Maintaining its position as the leader of its sector, Kılıçoğlu markets pressed bricks, furring bricks and terra cotta floor tiles needed for constructions as well as roofing systems for long-term solutions of perfect roof tiles and roof details. Having been active since 1927, Kılıçoğlu has a yearly production capacity of 8 million m2. Having started working together at the company’s Eskişehir operation, Universal Handlers aims to increase its cooperation with the Kılıçoğlu Group.

You Can Learn Anything

Khan Academy Türkçe launched the beta version of its new website, which includes a wealth of sophisticated functions designed in Turkish such as interactive exercises, control panel for teachers and parents, guiding and reporting algorithms at tr.khanacademy.org. After a dedicated work seeing the contribution of voluntary translators, Khan Academy Türkçe got ready to kick off remarkable innovations for the new educational year by expanding its portfolio of around 3,000 Turkish videos with more than ten thousand of tests and exercise questions.

A critical feature of the platform boasting a plenitude of innovations is the capability for parents and teachers to monitor the progress, learning pace, study time of, and challenging topics and other similar important data for students. Khan Academy Türkçe now allows parents to figure out whether their children use the PC or tablet for studying or surfing on the Internet, and how studying on the computer affects their success. Thanks to the capabilities offered by the new system, parents and teachers are able to extensively monitor what topics are challenging for the kid, and in which subjects the kid is successful, or to say briefly, all areas of strength and weakness.

Khan Academy Türkçe does not exclusively appeal to students. Khan Academy Türkçe offers averagely eight- minute long educational videos structured in a friendly language for anyone intending to learn. You can improve your abilities in a wide variety of topics spanning from basic operations to differential equations in Math, from medicine to art history, and you can reach all of this content without paying any fee. Khan Academy Türkçe is accessible anytime anywhere whenever you want to refresh your knowledge, learn new content or gain an in- depth understanding of a tough topic you could never master otherwise. With a personalized approach to education which is based on mastering the subject, Khan
Academy Türkçe offers the opportunity to learn at the pace that fits best to every
single individual.

Khan Academy continues to grow rapidly not only in Turkey, but in the whole world. Every month, educational content in Khan Academy serves 10 million students, and
350 thousand teachers use Khan Academy as an education tool in their classes. 4 million exercises are solved every day and the number of exercises answered to date is over 2 billion. Kicked off by Salman Khan’s aspirations, Khan Academy is translated into 28 languages today and is in use in as many as 200 countries. Thanks to STFA, Khan Academy Türkçe is proud to be the first international partner.

You only have to know one thing, you can learn anything!
Khan Academy is getting ready to appear in the social media through a new campaign aimed at increasing the social awareness about the fact that intelligence is not an inborn constant, and learning is not limited to age or school. Approximately one year after its launching in Turkey, Khan Academy campaign with the motto “We are born to learn. Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing, you can learn anything!” emphasizes once again the equal opportunities in education and possibilities created by Khan Academy to access knowledge for anyone at any age and anywhere. Believing in that knowledge should be freely accessible to whoever needs it, Khan Academy pursues the belief that everyone can learn, self development is possible with new knowledge, and the mind can be developed and sharpened. Learning is the onset of everything, and Khan
Academy, the biggest classroom of the world, invites you to a lively learning experience

Khan Academy Türkçe And Turkcell Akademi Cooperation

Khan Academy Türkçe and Turkcell Akademi Cooperation

On a mission to provide a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere, Khan Academy videos are now available in Turkcell Academy, as a result of the collaboration with Turkcell.

Turkcell has recently launched its education platform, Turkcell Academy. As a result of the cooperation between Turkcell Academy and Scientific and Technical Publications Translation Foundation, an STFA foundation, Khan Academy became the major content provider and the lessons in Turkish are now being streamed on Turkcell Academy. Aiming to provide a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere, Khan Academy Turkish lessons are now expected to reach many more users with Turkcell’s support.

Khan Academy’s content is completely free of charge and available to anyone.

With over two thousand educational videos translated into Turkish so far, Khan Academy provides 　a personalized education experience at one’s own learning pace. Thanks to the cooperation between Turkcell Academy and Khan Academy Turkce, these educational opportunities will be made even easier to reach.

Two New Projects İn Oman

We signed a Contract for the Musannah Fishing Port Project &We received an invitation for Musannah Treatment Plant Project , We signed a Contract for the Musannah Fishing Port Project

We signed a contract for the “Musannah Fishing Port” project of Oman Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries on December 5, 2013.The contract was signed on behalf of the Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries by the minister, H.E. Dr. Fuad bin Jaafar al Sajwani, and on behalf of STFA by the member of our Board of Directors, Mr. Nur Taşkent.

The project is in the town of Musannah, 160 kilometers from Muscat. The project includes the construction of a wharf of 150 meters, and breakwaters of 1627 meters as well as dredging works of up to 5 meters in depth.

 

We received an invitation for Musannah Treatment Plant Project

We received an invitation from the Directorate General of Wastewater of Oman Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources for the “Musannah Sewer System and Treatment Facility” project. We’d placed a bid for the project on February 18, 2013. The employer informed us with a letter on December 15, 2013 that we won the tender and invited us to sign the contract.

Included in the project are HDPE and UPVC sewer pipelines of 65 km in length and 200 to 500 mm in diameter and construction of one pumping plant and water supply station, as well as design and construction of one wastewater treatment plant (oxidation-type treatment plant).

One Of The Caissons Have Been Floated

In İzmit Bay Crossing Project, One of the Caissons Have Been Floated

An important phase of the Izmit Bay Crossing Project has been successfully completed. In a ceremony attended by the Minister of Transport Binali Yıldırım, the Director General of Highways, and senior managements of the project’s main contractors NOMAYG, IHI and STFA, one of the caissons upon which the abutments will be constructed has been floated (27.09.2013).

One of the caissons have been floated to the Temporary Supply Dock on the coast of Kaytazdere, 11 km from the drydock on Yalova’s Hersek Cape. The other caisson is expected to be floated in the upcoming days.

The caisson floating ceremony received great interest from the Highways senior officers to authorities from surrounding counties, from the main contractor’s senior executives to the press and the local population. An important milestone for the project was thus completed with great enthusiasm and success. In the next phase, work will commence at the sea.

Groundbreaking Ceremony Held At Erbil, Iraq

Groundbreaking Ceremony Held At Erbil, Iraq

Groundbreaking Ceremony Held for “Erbil Drinking Water Improvement and Erbil & Duhok Network” Project in Iraq

The groundbreaking ceremony for the “Erbil Drinking Water Improvement and Erbil & Duhok Network” project, undertaken as an STFA-FERNAS-KALYON Joint Venture in Iraq, was held. The ceremony took place at the 50,000 m3 capacity water reservoir being built by the joint venture in Erbil, on September 19, 2013 and was attended by the Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government Nechervan Barzani, the Turkish Consul General in Erbil Mehmet Akif İnam, Commercial Attaché Sayer Erbil, Senior Management from STFA, Fernas and Kalyon.

We Signed two Agreements with Pakistan

We Signed two Agreements with Pakistan as Part of Energy Investments in the Country

As a step towards realizing the energy and infrastructure investments which are a part of the new cooperation strategies between Turkey and Pakistan, two agreements were signed in a ceremony held on September 18, 2013, attended by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, the Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan, the Governor of Istanbul Hüseyin Avni Mutlu as well as Top Management of STFA.

In the bilateral discussions held during Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Turkey, STFA’s energy and infrastructure investment projects were evaluated. Bilateral meetings were held with the Pakistan Government.

New reciprocal investments in energy and infrastructure between Turkey and Pakistan are intended. Cooperations between the two countries were considered at the meetings held during Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Turkey.

One of the first results of these recently established collaborative relations between Turkey and Pakistan is the deals signed between STFA and Pakistani Government for the construction of a wind farm and power transmission lines. According to the deal signed for the wind farm, STFA will build a 50 MW wind plant in Pakistan. STFA will also undertake the construction of a power transmission line. After serving for 20 years as a contractor in Pakistan, these two deals will bring STFA back to the country, this time as an investor.

We Sponsored 2nd Black Sea Ports And Shipping 2013

We Sponsored the Event “2 nd Black Sea Ports and Shipping 2013”

STFA Construction Group has become a sponsor for the “Black Sea Ports and Shipping 2013” seminar, held at Istanbul The Marmara Taksim Hotel on September 10-12, 2013, and attended by renowned companies of the shipping sector.

Various presentations and panels have been organized throughout the event, our STFA Construction Group booth attracted a lot of attention, attendees received information about STFA Group and were told about our fields of activity and projects.

We Sponsored Oman Transport Infrastructure Summit 2013

We Sponsored the Event “Oman Transport Infrastructure Summit 2013”.

STFA Construction Group has become a sponsor for the “Oman Transport Infrastructure 2013,” that took place in Oman Muscat Grand Hyatt Hotel between September 8-10, 2013, discussing infrastructure projects in Oman.

Mandated by Omani Ministry of Transportation, the event was attended by senior officers from a number of ministries and municipalities, as well as by many international construction companies.

Mr. Mısırlıoğlu (Vice President of STFA) gave a presentation titled “Challenged in Transportation Projects – A Contractor’s Perspective.”