Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Sustainable Renovation of Buildings from 2001 to 2024

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 69 - 79, 30.06.2025

Sema Balçık , Ruşen Yamaçlı

https://doi.org/10.17350/HJSE19030000353

Abstract

Sustainable architecture is becoming increasingly important today, and designs that take into account environmental conditions come to the fore, especially in the life cycle of the existing building stock and in the processes of building new buildings. The principles of sustainable architecture aim to produce buildings that cause the least damage to the environment and consume the least amount of natural resources, minimize the damage to the environment in the existing building stock, and provide sustainable qualities through renovation processes. Not demolishing the existing building stock, not destroying the energy embedded in buildings, not creating waste, and not harming the environment is a sustainable architectural approach. In addition, by renovating buildings to increase their sustainable quality, they are made more sensitive to the environment. This study aims to evaluate the publications on sustainable building renovation by bibliometric analysis method. Within the scope of the study, data obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) database were used. The study retrieved 1058 publications published between 2001 and 2024 from the Web of Science database on November 17, 2024. The data obtained as a result of bibliometric analysis were created visual network maps using the VOSviewer program. This study emphasizes the importance of sustainable renovation of buildings and efficient consumption of resources within the scope of sustainable development. Within the scope of the study, quantitative data on the development of the subject in the world in line with the bibliometric analysis method are included. In this direction, suggestions have been developed on what needs to be done to increase sustainable building renovation studies.

Keywords

Sustainability , Sustainable architecture , Sustainable renovation of buildings , Bibliometric analysis , VOSviewer

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