Nazmi Şahin, President of the Building Inspection and Earthquake Engineering Association, noting that 2,576 buildings in Elazığ and 1,963 buildings in Malatya have passed building inspection since 2010, announced that there was no collapse, deflection or cracking in the buildings that had previously received building inspection services during the earthquake.
4,539 buildings did not crack
Nazmi Şahin, noting that a total of 4,539 buildings in Elazığ and Malatya have passed building inspection since 2010, provided the following information:
“As building inspection firms, to date in Elazığ we have inspected 2,576 buildings, covering a total area of 4,935,096 square metres, with 17 building inspection firms licensed by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation, 3 laboratory firms, 196 specialist architects and engineers, and 433 assistant control staff engineers. In the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that occurred, there was no collapse, deflection or cracking in the buildings that had received building inspection services. In Malatya, we inspected 1,963 buildings, covering a total area of 7,232,956 square metres, with 16 building inspection firms, 3 laboratory firms, 271 specialist architects and engineers, and 718 assistant control staff engineers. There was no collapse, deflection or cracking in the buildings that had received building inspection services during the earthquake.”
Chip-based tracking for 58,000 buildings
The Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation introduced the chip application as part of the Electronic Concrete Monitoring System as of 25 December 2018. Under the application introduced to bring defects in construction concrete and loss and leakage rates close to zero, a total of 3,748,066 fresh concrete samples have been taken from 58,784 buildings to date and the concrete has been subjected to testing. The system worked successfully with a rate of 99.5 percent.
As the wet concrete is poured at the construction site, a chip containing information such as the name of the construction owner, the name of the contractor, and where the concrete was used is placed inside the samples taken. Tests are carried out on the samples. The results are recorded in the ministry’s system. No permission to continue construction is granted for concrete that fails the test.
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