In the hospital projects seismic isolator use, the impact of the decision to use seismic isolators on the building production process

While the number of people die because of the earthquake hazard, are getting increase day by day, each country is taking precautions to decrease earthquake damages. Especially in Turkey, the seismic precautions to be taken at the buildings gain importance because of being in first degree fault line. As a growth and development strategy many of district are improving their own emergency preparedness project, like in İstanbul. The use of seismic isolation plays an important role in the buildings needed to provide uninterrupted service, especially in hospitals. In Istanbul, many public buildings such as hospitals are made insulated against depression. In Turkey, Strategies and regulations are being developed to ensure that major public buildings like that hospitals are not affected by the earthquake. For example, with the general instruction of Turkey Republic (2013) using seismic isolator is made obligatory in hospitals which have more than 100 beds. Seismic isolators are accepted as the system showing best earthquake isolation performance at the point reached today in the world. However, deciding of using seismic isolation in a building is closely related with sub-phases of building construction which are enterprise / design / contract /construction / usage. In this study, In the hospital projects in which seismic isolator use decision, the impact of the decision to use seismic isolators on the sub-phases of the building production process, the problems encountered in this process and suggestions for solutions to these problems. In this study, the aim will be reached by reviewing the building production processes of 5 large scale hospital buildings completed / completed using seismic isolators in Istanbul and by consulting experts working in these projects.