Within the scope of the project, which is a first in Turkey and carried out in partnership with the Manisa Metropolitan Municipality and Manisa Celal Bayar University, the earthquake resistance determination studies of the buildings have started in line with the requests of the citizens who applied. Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cengiz Ergün and Manisa Celal Bayar University Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ataç examined the work done in the field and gave information about the work.
After the earthquake disasters, the epicenter of which was Kahramanmaraş on February 6 and which caused many casualties, Manisa Metropolitan Municipality and Manisa Celal Bayar University signed a joint protocol and started earthquake resistance determination studies for 600 thousand residences in Manisa. Following the requests of the citizens who applied, the first building detection work within the scope of the project was carried out. Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cengiz Ergün and Manisa Celal Bayar University Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ataç also followed the work on site and received information about the work.
The project will last between 4-6 months.
Evaluating the first detection process, which started with the participation of expert professors, technical teams and officials at the university, Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cengiz Ergün said, “First of all, we experienced a great disaster in 6 provinces in the 12 February earthquake. I pray that God will not let this kind of suffering happen to our country again. My condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and wish a speedy recovery to the injured. In the process after this earthquake, we decided to organize a joint protocol with the cooperation of Manisa Metropolitan Municipality and Manisa Celal Bayar University. We have also signed this protocol. I hope God will not show it, but we are starting a service at the point of documenting more than 17 thousand houses in Manisa, including 600 districts. Today we are starting the project. In these works we have done, we have trained more than 100 of our engineers and technicians. These trainings were actually held for about 1 month. By developing the program modules within the scope of the software we have arranged, our engineers will carry out their work in the field with the tablets in their hands. These will be documented by our professors and experts. We will provide our citizens with documents regarding what equipment and what their current building can be. The project that we started as Manisa Metropolitan Municipality and Manisa Celal Bayar University will cover a period of 4-6 months. We will carry out our work in the field without any charge. Another important point that I would like to mention is that no core application will be made in the building under any circumstances. We will implement these works completely electronically, with new technologies in terms of the location of iron and concrete. I wish you the best of luck in advance, and thank those who contributed. Manisa Celal Bayar University Rector Prof. Dr. I would like to express my thanks to Ahmet Ataç. I hope that with these measures to be taken, our citizens will be able to perform the performance analysis themselves by having cores taken. Our citizens will decide what to do after this document. This study is an x-ray in a way,” he said.
“We will benefit from academic teams”
Manisa Celal Bayar University Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ataç, in the information he gave about the project, said, “First of all, I pray God's mercy on those who lost their lives in the disaster of the century and patience for the rest. After the earthquake disaster, we were in search of what we could do as an academy. I hope God does not show, but Manisa is in the earthquake zone. We started this study with the aim of using the technical knowledge of the university for the public, as well as the brain power, together with human capital, outside of education. The main purpose of the study is to take X-rays of the buildings before coming to the coring section and to provide our citizens with a risky, low-risk, medium-risk or high-risk document of their buildings and to do this with a software. Who will we use on the field? There is a team of nearly 100. It will be an academic team. We will make use of the Chamber of Civil Engineers. We will use our teachers. We have provided training for field formatters for about 1 month. We provided training on how to work in the field and how to take these measurements. We want that the determinations we will make at this point, that is, if not 99%, we want clear information at the rate of 98-600%. We want the initiative to stay away from other areas as well. From an academic point of view, from the point of view of our teachers, it will be a first in Turkey in terms of X-rays and documentation of XNUMX thousand residences in all districts of Manisa and the buildings to be built on the basis of districts. I would like to thank Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Cengiz Ergün, Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Civil Engineering Department Head, my colleagues who worked in this department and took part in this project, and the engineers of the Chamber of Civil Engineers who will contribute to us in this process. On behalf of the people of Manisa, on behalf of the university, I thank you.”