About 300 thousand new residential buildings should be built in the earthquake-stricken regions of Turkey to make up for the lost housing stock, Yeni Şafak reported on Wednesday.
According to its data, the large-scale inspection revealed that more than 211 thousand buildings have been seriously or critically damaged. A total of about 370 thousand buildings were inspected. In the 10 affected provinces it will be necessary to rebuild 400 thousand buildings, 300 thousand of which is the housing stock.
The Directorate of housing construction in Turkey has already begun to implement the recovery plan. At the first stage it will construct 30 thousand buildings, and by June this figure will rise to 100 thousand.
Experts found that 98% of the destroyed buildings are those constructed before 1999, when the country suffered a devastating earthquake. After that disaster, new building standards were adopted. The experts called the cause of the collapse of most of the buildings this time liquefaction of soils under the foundations of buildings. This was due to the lack of properly constructed underground utilities and engineering flaws in the design and construction. The soil under the buildings did not behave as a solid body, and many houses literally overturned with the foundations under the action of the underground shocks.
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Based on materials from TASS