Izmir Metropolitan Municipality started the preliminary study of the building in order to determine the earthquake resistance of the buildings in the city. The teams, which will examine 5 thousand buildings in the first place, will create a preliminary evaluation report for the earthquake resistance of the buildings at the end of the studies. Head of METU Civil Engineering Department Prof. Dr. Erdem Canbay said, “We want to identify very risky buildings very quickly. Thus, even if the buildings are damaged in the earthquake, there will be no loss of life.”
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality continues its efforts to make the city earthquake resistant and to survive a possible disaster with the least loss. The Metropolitan Municipality, with the Izmir Branch of the Chamber of Civil Engineers (IMO), has started the preliminary inspection work for the 5 thousand buildings that applied in the first place. In the study started from Bornova, the engineers were first given a speech by the Head of Civil Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University (METU), Prof. Dr. Training was given by Erdem Canbay.
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Banu Dayangaç, Head of the Department of Earthquake Risk Management and Urban Improvement of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, reminded that the preliminary inspection studies are given to the citizens free of charge, and said, "While the construction inventory studies were continuing, we also started the preliminary study of the structure. We accept applications from anywhere in Izmir. Most applications KarşıyakaWe got it from,” he said.
Preliminary evaluation report will be given
Emphasizing that the study is only a preliminary investigation, Dayangaç said, “There are questions about whether a risky structure is detected. These studies are not risky structure detection studies within the scope of Law No. 6306. It is a preliminary examination of earthquake resistance, which determines and examines the current state of buildings. We inspect the conformity of the buildings with the projects. Then, we evaluate the strength of the building with concrete hammer, concrete application and x-ray application.” At the end of the studies, it is also aimed to present the applicants with a preliminary assessment report on the earthquake resistance of their buildings.
Building identity card will also be provided.
Banu Dayangaç also talked about the building identity document system, which continues simultaneously with the building inventory work, and said, "We will also create the building identity documents for the buildings that apply together with our preliminary examination studies and give them to the citizens at the end of the work."
Risk analyzes of buildings are carried out
Head of METU Civil Engineering Department Prof. Dr. Erdem Canbay also said that the flat owners should apply for the work to be done. Explaining that the earthquake performance of the building will determine whether there is an urgent need for intervention, Prof. Dr. Erdem Canbay said, “First, we look at the shape of the building and the number of floors. Then we go inside the building and examine the number of columns, the size of the columns, the basement, everything. Then we do a quick modeling and risk analysis on the computer. Here, we will also do the concrete strength with the concrete hammer. If there is any doubt that the building is not resistant to earthquakes, we plan to carry out further studies with the permission of the floor owners.” said.
“This study is very important”
Stating that they are trying to obtain information about the building very quickly with minimum intervention, Erdem Canbay said: “This study has great importance. We know that 30 percent of buildings in Turkey are risky. Again, it is seen that 6 million buildings in total are dangerous. We cannot transform all of these buildings. But we can identify the riskiest ones. When we reveal this, work will be done in these risky buildings first. We want to convert. Strengthen if necessary. Whatever will be done will be done in these buildings first. Because you cannot transform 6 million buildings at once.”
“No loss of life”
Stating that there are risky buildings in İzmir, Canbay said, “For example, there are approximately 900 thousand buildings in İzmir. The numbers are huge. We want to identify a small number of very dangerous buildings very quickly. Even if buildings are damaged in an earthquake, at least there will be no loss of life thanks to this study. The primary aim of this study is to reduce the loss of life to zero. If we identify the most dangerous ones first, if the owners let us and ask them to look at their building, we will do it very quickly. If the citizens allow, we will determine the most risky buildings in İzmir in the first place. We'll have our buildings to fight. After that, we start with these first.”