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The construction of the Biva Tower project in Izmir’s Bayraklı district, which was severely damaged by the earthquake, was also affected by the earthquake that occurred yesterday.
A construction worker working on the 21st floor of the 151-meter-high Biva Tower, located at the intersection of Mansuroğlu neighborhood, 286 Street and İslam Kerimov Street, was killed and broken steel pieces fell on the vehicles.
THE EARTHQUAKE MEETING AREA REMAINED IN THE CLOSED AREA
Introduced as the tallest structural steel building in Europe, the surroundings of the Biva Tower project were closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic for safety reasons. The earthquake assembly area next to the skyscraper was also within the access denied area.
Vahap Yılmaz, chairman of the board of directors of Biva İnşaat, stated that the elevator tower steels on the top floor of the building were installed during the earthquake, he said: “In the severe earthquake, a part that was not assembled and the fixture holding her fell onto our own vehicle in front of the construction site. Institution to investigate the incident
and the organizations do it ”.
He explained the death of Melih Dağbaşı, who works in construction, during the earthquake as follows:
“During the earthquake, Melih Dağbaşı, two employees of our subcontractor GÜLERMAK A.Ş., who did other work on the north axis of the building that had nothing to do with the assembly above, and his teammate were working on the 18th floor in the basket connected to the tower crane.
According to the testimony of the employee who witnessed the incident, they could not realize with a panic that there was an earthquake in the basket where they were working during the earthquake, and they thought that the tower crane was overturned, they tried to jump to the beams of the building by opening the belts safety and the safety of the basket. As a result, our brother was unable to hold onto the rafters where he jumped and died.
We wish Allah’s mercy to our colleague Melih Dağbaşı, who died in the first place and to our citizens who lost their lives in the İzmir earthquake, our condolences to their grieving families and the healing of our injured citizens. “
Biva Tower stands on 2,522 square meters of land. There would be 25 residential floors in the tower, whose first 2 floors will be commercial areas, 4 floors will be parking lots and 2 floors will be social facilities.
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