On Wednesday 14 March at 15.30 pm, in the conference room of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Rome, engineers Anil Dindar and Cüneyt Tüzün from the University of Gebze will hold a study seminar on the building and urban renewal plan, launched by Turkish government after the 1999 Izmit earthquake. Turkey is a country with very high seismic risk and the plan, established with the law 6306 of 2012, is today the largest building and urban project in the world and provides for the anti-seismic adaptation o the reconstruction from scratch of almost 6.5 million vulnerable buildings (of which about 100.000 have already been demolished and partly rebuilt) for a total investment, for the whole country, of almost 410 billion euros over the next ten or fifteen years. The plan proposes an organic approach to the problems of building heritage vulnerability and provides for forms of accreditation for engineering studies and construction companies, highlighting the need to link professional activity to in-depth scientific knowledge of the phenomena.
Contacts:
Dr. Alessandro Amato:
Dr Aybige Akinci:
Cover photo: Dikmen Vadisi, Ankara ©Jorge Franganillo - Flick (Creative Commons)