Construction Site Internship
The Construction Site Internship involves hands-on training at construction sites; and interior design; and in construction site offices, it covers the drawings, as-built surveys, and detail drawings necessary for production, construction, and installation related to new building construction, as well as cost analyses, estimates, and restoration work.
This internship may be completed at the construction sites of private firms, institutions, organizations, and construction companies deemed suitable by the internship committees (private firms must hold an office registration certificate approved by the relevant professional association).
Internship Process: 1. Submit an application → 2. Complete the internship → 3. Submit the internship portfolio
We recommend that you carefully read the YTU Faculty of Architecture Internship Implementation Principles for the requirements of the Construction Site Internship process.
1. Construction Site Internship Application
a. Internship applications must be submitted by the end of the final exam schedule for the relevant academic term. In special circumstances—such as institutions announcing their internship schedules late or offers from the National Internship Program—applications may be accepted without a time limit, provided the relevant documents are submitted and the Departmental Internship Committees grant approval.
b. When applying for an internship, students must have an email address with the std.yildiz.edu.tr email addresses to have the following documents approved by the relevant units prior to the internship and submit them as a single PDF file to the email addresses announced by the relevant Departmental Internship Committees (mimsantiyestaji@yildiz.edu.tr).
“Documents not sent from an email address with the ‘std.yildiz.edu.tr’ extension cannot be processed.”
-FR-0619-Architecture Department Internship Application Form
-FR-0285-General Health Insurance Declaration and Commitment Form
-FR-1936-Information Form on Unemployment Fund Contributions to Internship Stipends*
For internships conducted during the academic term, the weekly class schedule beginning after the add/drop week
Copy of ID Card,
Internship Schedule (Click here for the 2025-2026 Internship Schedule.)
Internship Site Introduction Document (There is no pre-prepared form for this document. The student must prepare a brief text introducing the organization where they are interning, the authorized official approving the internship, the staff, and any other interns, if applicable.)
* For students who will receive payment from companies that provide an internship stipend and benefit from government subsidies.
c. A passport-sized photo of the student must be attached in the designated areas on the forms. Additionally, all required fields must be signed or stamped by the relevant person.
d. Documents must be completed digitally and in full; they may be signed and stamped by hand.
e. A construction site internship may be supervised by an architect or civil engineer with at least five years of professional experience. Evidence that the authorized person approving the internship has at least 5 (five) years of professional experience—including the university and department where they earned their bachelor’s degree, graduation date (day, month, and year), professional association registration number, and other relevant information- must be submitted in writing in the Site Internship Introduction Document.
f. Internships are conducted during academic breaks. Work performed on official holidays is not counted toward the internship period. Internships must generally be conducted during months that coincide with semester or summer breaks.
However, in the situations listed below where internships are not conducted during months that coincide with semester or summer breaks, the internship continues alongside educational and instructional activities; internships cannot be conducted on days when the student has classes or exams:
Students who have completed their fourth semester or have successfully passed all courses in their program may complete their internship during the academic term. Students taking courses in Summer School may complete their internship during the summer term.
Although work performed on official holidays is not counted toward the internship period, students who have (including Saturdays and/or Sundays) may complete their internship concurrently with their academic studies (on days when they have no classes or exams, taking into account the course and exam schedule for the relevant semester or Summer School). In this case, the Capstone Project will not be considered.
If a student has completed all their courses but has not yet completed their internship, they may complete the internship at any time.
g. Internships may begin no earlier than the 10th day following the Construction Site Internship Committee’s approval of the application.
h. The duration of the construction site internship may be a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 60 days. The start and end dates of the internship, as well as the total number of internship days, must be consistent across all documents.
i. All days on which internship work will be performed must be marked individually on the Internship Calendar, and the student’s first and last name must be written and signed at the bottom of the calendar.
j. When preparing the documents, care must be taken to ensure that the structure of the forms is not altered and that sections on the document do not extend onto a second page.
k. After all forms and documents required for the application have been filled out digitally, they must be checked to ensure they are complete and comply with the above rules, and then sent as a single PDF file in A4 (210–297 mm) size as a single PDF file and sent as an attachment via email to (mimsantiyestaji@yildiz.edu.tr). The following text must be included in the email body:
To the Construction Site Internship Committee,
I wish to complete my …-day construction site internship at the institution named … between … and … . I hereby submit the attached documents (names of documents attached) prepared in accordance with the rules for your approval.
Sincerely,
Student’s first name, last name, and student ID number”
l. The aforementioned documents will be reviewed by the Construction Site Internship Committee; if deemed appropriate, they will be approved, signed, and returned to the student via email.
m. The student must submit, along with these documents approved by the Construction Site Internship Committee, one fully completed copy of the FR-0285 General Health Insurance Declaration and Commitment Form, with all required fields signed and stamped, one copy of the FR-1266-Information Form on Unemployment Fund Contributions to Internship Wages, and a front-and-back photocopy of their Turkish ID card (national ID), all in a single PDF file no larger than 5 MBin a single PDF file to the email address mimblm@yildiz.edu.tr as an attachment. The following text must be included in the email body:
“To the Department of Architecture,
I wish to complete my …-day construction site internship at the institution named … between … and … Attached are the FR-0284 Yıldız Technical University SGK Internship Application Form, approved by the Construction Site Internship Committee; the Internship Schedule; the FR-0285 General Health Insurance Declaration and Commitment Form; the FR-1266 Unemployment Fund Contribution to Internship Stipends Information Form, and a photocopy of my Turkish ID card.
Sincerely,
Student’s first name, last name, and ID number”
Students wishing to complete an internship abroad must also prepare, sign, and stamp these documents (in Turkish). If the host institution requests it, it is the student’s responsibility to provide an oral or written explanation in the relevant language.
Once all required forms for the application have been submitted to the Department of Architecture in a complete and error-free manner, the internship application is considered complete, and the student may carry out their internship activities during the dates specified in the application.
2. Conducting the Internship—Construction Site Internship Activities
a. If there is a change in the person supervising the student’s work during the process, one copy of the FR-1436-Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture Internship Site Supervisor Change Form must be completed and submitted as an email attachment to mimsantiyestaji@yildiz.edu.tr for approval. The new person supervising the student’s work must also be an architect or urban planner with at least 5 years of professional experience. The following text must be included in the email:
“To the Construction Site Internship Committee,
I am currently working to complete my …-day construction site internship at the institution named … between … and … However, the person supervising my work has changed. I hereby submit the attached PDF file containing the FR-1436 Site Supervisor Change Form, which I have prepared in accordance with the regulations, for your approval.
Sincerely,
Student’s first name, last name, and student ID number”
b. In the event that the internship cannot be completed for any reason, the student must submit a written request to the Department of Architecture explaining the situation and the reason. A copy of this petition must also be sent to the Construction Site Internship Committee via the email address mimsantiyestaji@yildiz.edu.tr for information purposes.
c. If the internship cannot be completed within the dates specified in the application for any reason, the student must write a letter explaining the situation and send it to the Construction Site Internship Committee via the email address mimsantiyestaji@yildiz.edu.tr.
3. Submission of the Construction Site Internship File
According to the Internship Implementation Principles of the Faculty of Architecture at Yıldız Technical University, students must submit their internship portfolios no later than one month from the date the internship work is completed; internship portfolios not submitted within one month will not be evaluated. The student must
FR-1875-Yıldız Technical University Internship Logbook and
FR-1878-Faculty of Architecture Internship Record and Evaluation Form, paying close attention to the following rules:
a. The internship start and end dates and the total number of internship days listed in the FR-1875-Yıldız Technical University Internship Logbook and the FR-1878-Faculty of Architecture Internship Record and Evaluation Form must match those in the application documents.
b. All documents must bear the signature and stamp (which may also be digital) of the person supervising the student’s work.
c. If the person supervising the student’s work is unable to sign and stamp each page of the FR-1875-Yıldız Technical University Internship Logbook separately, they may write a signed and stamped (either wet or digital) letter addressed to the Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Construction Site Internship Committee, stating that they have reviewed, examined, and approved the student’s internship file. This letter (if signed by hand, it must be scanned) must be submitted in PDF format along with the documents listed above. The text of the relevant letter should be as follows:
“To the Construction Site Internship Committee,
The internship logbook of student No. ..... named ........., who completed a ...-day construction site internship at our institution named ... between ... and ..., has been reviewed by us. We hereby declare that no artificial intelligence tools were used in the preparation of the internship logbook and wish to confirm that the logbook has been approved by us.
Sincerely,
Name and Surname of Institution Authorized Representative, Signature”
d. The student must describe the activities performed on each workday of the internship in detail and in accordance with spelling rules, using no fewer than 150 words, 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font, and 1.5 (one and a half) line spacing, They must describe how these activities contributed to their education using active sentences (e.g., “I made a drawing”), explain the details, and specify what they learned and how the activity contributed to their education. Artificial intelligence software must not be used in the preparation of these texts.
e. At least one easily recognizable visual representing the activity described in this text must be included either on the same page or, depending on the length of the text, on the second page of this workday’s entry. Each visual should be assigned a figure number (Figure No. 1, 2, … 35, … from the beginning to the end of the notebook) and given a brief title. A reference to this visual should be made in the relevant part of the text as “See Figure No. 24.”
f. Below each illustration, the type of work depicted, the first and last name of the person who performed the work, and the date the work was performed must be written.
g. In the internship log, the student must describe in detail only the work they performed themselves. If they utilized work done by someone else while carrying out an assigned task, they must clearly indicate this. Even if two different students work at the same institution during the same time period, their internship journals should not be identical and should not contain text or images that are very similar to one another.
The knowledge gained during the internship must be described in detail on a day-by-day basis, rather than summarized under headings.
h. In the box labeled “Work Day” on each Internship Log, the student must indicate which day of the internship it is. The tasks performed on the relevant day must be listed under headings in the “Table of Contents” section of the log.
i. Before submitting the internship file, the authorized official approving the internship must access the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc74WAgA-zWd20MW7ZpIRUsE1HVY9-x03Eep7Ttr4EaGPLg9g/viewform?usp=sf_link.
j. The student must submit the FR-1875-Yıldız Technical University Internship Log and the FR-1878-Faculty of Architecture Internship Record and Evaluation Form, prepared in full and without errors in accordance with the above rules, into separate PDF files that are not too large (the Internship File must be no larger than 15 MB, and other documents no larger than 1 MB), name the files in the format “first_name_last_name_form_name,” and submit them as attachments via email to the Construction Site Internship Committee at mimsantiyestaji@yildiz.edu.tr. The following text must be included in the email:
“To the Construction Site Internship Committee,
I completed my …-day construction site internship at the institution named … between … and … I ensured that the authorized official who approved my internship participated in the FR-0961-Architecture Department External Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey (Employer). I hereby submit the attached PDF file, which contains the FR-1875-Yıldız Technical University Internship Logbook and the FR-1878-Faculty of Architecture Internship Record and Evaluation Form, prepared in accordance with the regulations, for your review.
Sincerely,
Student’s first name, last name, and ID number”
k. The Construction Site Internship Committee will evaluate the student’s activities on each workday during the internship by reading these texts and reviewing the accompanying images. Documents that do not comply with the above rules—those lacking sufficient detail or length, poorly written, or contain spelling errors, or images that are unclear or too small may result in the student’s work for that workday not being understood, and consequently, that day may not be accepted.
l. The evaluation period is one month, starting from the date the relevant documents are submitted to the Construction Site Internship Committee in a complete and error-free manner. Within this period, the Construction Site Internship Committee will notify the Department of Architecture and the student of the evaluation result.
m. The Department of Architecture must report the result to the Office of Student Affairs no later than the end of the semester following the internship evaluation and enter it into the current student information system.
n. If a decision to require corrections is issued, the student must comply with the Committee’s recommendations within one month at the latest and resubmit the revised FR-1875-Yıldız Technical University Internship Log via email. Otherwise, the internship will be deemed rejected.
o. If a rejection decision is issued, the student may file an appeal with the Department of Architecture within one week of being notified of the decision. The file will be reviewed again by the Commission to determine whether an error occurred.
NOTE: FORM3: “SPAS Eligibility Certificate” is generated through the e-Government Portal. The SPAS Eligibility Certificate is generated through the “SPAS Eligibility Certificate Inquiry (Health Provision Activation)” section on the e-Government Portal. You can access the relevant webpage by clicking the link below or by typing “SPAS Eligibility Certificate Inquiry” into your web browser’s search bar, and then generate the certificate using your e-Government password.
You can also access the internship guidelines via the link below.
dd-089-ytu-faculty-of-architecture-internship-guidelines.docx
Click here for the 2024 internship schedule.
Click here for the 2025 internship schedule.