Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerAfter the October 30 earthquake, in line with the vision of . Bayraklı The building inventory studies initiated in the region have been completed. Identity documents of 31 thousand 146 buildings were issued and published on the websites of the Metropolitan Municipality. President Soyer said, “Our aim is not to condemn İzmir and its inhabitants to unhealthy structures, destruction and loss of life.”
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality is a pilot region on the way to create a resilient city by realizing the most comprehensive earthquake research and risk reduction projects in Turkey. Bayraklı's current building stock inventory. After this work, the identity document of 31 thousand 146 constructions was prepared. BayraklıThe information of the buildings in Izmir is now on the website of the Metropolitan Municipality. http://www.izmir.bel.trIt can be easily accessed from Bizİzmir digital platform and Bizİzmir mobile application.
Cards were hung at the building entrances in Mansuroğlu Mahallesi
The building identity document was hung at the entrances of the buildings in the Mansuroğlu District, which was chosen as the pilot area. There is also a QR code application on the cards on which information such as island/plot, license date, building occupancy permit, assembly areas are displayed. Citizens can learn all the information about the building by scanning the QR code on the card with the QR code application on the phone.
Our work continues
Stating that their aim is to make the people of Izmir feel safe in the city and buildings they live in, the President Tunç Soyer“For this, we have implemented Turkey's most comprehensive earthquake research and risk reduction projects. On the one hand, we are making an inventory of the existing building stock in the city with the Izmir Branch of the Chamber of Civil Engineers, on the other hand, we are working on seismicity research and soil behavior modeling with the contribution of 10 universities under the coordination of METU. We will complete this work, which is the first in Turkey and very few examples in the world, with great speed. Most affected by the earthquake Bayraklı We will spread our building stock inventory and building identity card document works that we started in the district of the city to the whole city, starting from the districts in the city center. We will continue to do whatever we can to make everyone feel safe in Izmir. Our aim is not to condemn İzmir and its people to unhealthy structures, destructions and loss of life.”
It is now very easy to access structural information of buildings.
Banu Dayangaç, Head of the Department of Earthquake Risk Management and Urban Improvement of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, said that they aim to create an inventory of existing structures after the October 30 earthquake and to determine high priority urban improvement areas by evaluating the behavior of the structures under the influence of earthquakes. Stating that one of the most important results of the building inventory study is the building identity document, Dayangaç said, “An identity document containing the structural information of the building was created for each building. In accordance with our transparency and accessibility principle, everyone can easily and quickly access information about the building they live in. The building identity document contains the general information of the building. We get detailed information about the building with the QR code application read. For example, we access the building's license, carrier system, ground structure and all kinds of project information, together with its documents. It also shows disaster and emergency assembly areas. We can reach the locations of these areas on the map," he said.
Other counties are next
This work BayraklıBanu Dayangaç, who said that they applied it to all buildings in residential use, that is, in 31 buildings, stated that they aimed to spread the work throughout the city, primarily in the central districts. Dayangaç said, "When the building inventory, which we aim to expand throughout the city, is completed and integrated with other risk reduction projects of the municipality, we will become a more resilient and safer city against disasters."
Neighborhood residents liked the application
Mehmet Özdemir, one of the residents of the neighborhood, stated that he was satisfied with the application. Özdemir said, “Our building now has an identity card. In this ID, we can access all the information by scanning the barcode. We see how many square meters the building is, whether it is licensed or not, and everything in the project. For example, when I want to buy an apartment in this building, I will see if there is a building with a project and whether it has a residence permit. This will be a great help for me," he said.
İshak Kızıltaş said that it is a great convenience to be able to access all information about the building by scanning the data matrix.
What was done?
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality decided to take the inventory of the existing building stock in the city on March 4, 2021 and signed a protocol with the Izmir Chamber of Civil Engineers (IMO). Most affected by the earthquake Bayraklı Within the scope of the work started in the district of Istanbul, the field and archive work related to 31 thousand 146 houses has been completed. Archival and project data were analyzed through the street survey conducted in the field, integrated with the concrete strength data obtained from experiments and analyzes, and analyzed with scientific methods, taking into account the year of construction. Building inventory studies and building identity document system BayraklıAfter , it will be expanded to the whole of İzmir. The Metropolitan Municipality aims to take an inventory of 869 thousand 217 buildings throughout the city in the long term.
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