Some 144,000 buildings in Türkiye have been built-in into an identification system carried out by authorities to forestall column slicing and unauthorized flooring additions, a senior official mentioned Saturday.
Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Mehmet Özhaseki, took to his social media account to share updates on the implementation of the Building Identification System (BKS) by the General Directorate of Construction Works in 2021.
“With the ‘Building Identification System,’ which we started implementing simultaneously in 81 provinces to ensure the control of buildings by our General Directorate of Construction Works and will periodically inspect, we will prevent situations such as column cutting and unauthorized floor additions,” Özhaseki mentioned on social media platform X, previously Twitter.
As a part of his assertion, he talked about residents can acquire common details about a constructing by scanning QR codes from their telephones and constructing residents can entry extra detailed info by means of the e-Government system.
He additionally shared a video explaining the system.
Doğan Yorulmaz, the pinnacle of the ministry’s Building Inspection Department, whose evaluations in regards to the software are included within the video, defined that within the buildings whose inspection actions have ended, the groups create the digital id doc and mount it on the constructing.
He additionally famous that it’s aimed for constructions constructed earlier than 2021 to be equally recognized and included within the audit.
With BKS, which is designed to be built-in into Türkiye’s public database, each constructing house owners and public officers will be capable to entry technical and common details about the buildings.
Besides serving to authorities stop unlawful development, the system is claimed to play an vital function throughout pure disasters equivalent to earthquakes and fires.
Source: www.dailysabah.com