In order for citizens to live in earthquake-resistant housing, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change has inspected 23 million 1 thousand 66 thousand buildings in 987 years, and the inspection of 480 thousand buildings continues.
Within the scope of the “building inspection system” implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change in 2001, 1 million 66 thousand 987 thousand buildings have been inspected throughout Turkey to date.
The Law on Building Inspection, which came into force in 1999 following the 2001 Marmara Earthquake, was first put into practice in a total of 19 provinces, including Istanbul, Kocaeli, Ankara, Izmir and Sakarya, which are critically important in terms of earthquakes. In the inspections conducted by the General Directorate of Construction Works in the buildings constructed according to the building inspection system within the scope of the law in these provinces, more than 90 percent success was achieved in terms of compliance with static-reinforced concrete projects in terms of the load-bearing system. Thereupon, the building inspection system was introduced in 2011 provinces in 81. The Ministry is currently conducting these inspection activities with 81 building inspection institutions and 2 laboratories in 580 provinces.
While 15 inspector architects and engineers, 885 assistant control personnel architects and engineers work in building inspection organizations, the inspection activities of laboratory organizations are actively carried out with 21 laboratory inspector engineers, 665 testing personnel and 1264 sampling personnel.
INSPECTION OF 480 THOUSAND BUILDINGS CONTINUES
With the building inspection system implemented to ensure that citizens live in earthquake-resistant housing, the total number of buildings inspected in 23 years has reached 1 million 66 thousand 987 thousand. Currently, inspections of 480 thousand buildings are ongoing. The inspection of the activities of the building inspection and laboratory organizations that undertake the inspection of constructions is carried out regularly every year through the Provincial Directorates of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. Within the scope of these studies, 109 thousand 692 construction sites, 51 thousand 937 offices and 3 thousand 363 laboratories have been inspected to date.
BUILDING INSPECTION IN NEARLY 200 THOUSAND BUILDINGS IN ISTANBUL
The Ministry continues its building inspection activities in Istanbul against the possible Marmara earthquake. With the building inspection activities carried out by 501 building inspection organizations and 56 laboratories in Istanbul, 189 thousand buildings have been inspected to date, while inspections on 71 thousand buildings are ongoing.
On the other hand, within the scope of the inspection activities carried out in construction sites by the Provincial Directorate of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, inspection studies were carried out in 13 construction sites, 384 offices and 12 laboratories.
