Investigation of disaster risk in terms of buildings as part of urban transformation of Akyazı district center

In this study on investigation of disaster risk in terms of buildings as part of urban transformation of Akyazi district center, some of the buildings have been investigated in terms of disaster risk in Omercikler District neighborhood where is considered as the old settlement that has buildings constructed before the earthquake and in order to be create a reference study to the urban transformation that will possibly take place in the related area. Within this scope, risk status of the current buildings in terms of disaster risk has been determined by Street Scanning Method and the risk status of the buildings has been graded and classified in accordance with their priority by P25 method. After this first phase, the buildings which have building license out of the buildings in our study have been investigated on the license attachments of architecture and static projects as a second phase of the investigation and the disaster risk status of the buildings in question has been investigated in detail. The findings in both phases have been digitized on current maps and the classifications of the risky buildings have been displayed as risk map. As the result of both phases, disaster risk status of the current buildings in Akyazi District Center have been determined and this has enabled the evaluation of these buildings in terms of urban transformation process. Following this study, it will be possible to make these investigations on the areas or neighborhoods' that need such investigations by getting in contact with the related local authorities. By sharing all the results and findings with Sakarya Metropolitan Municipality, Akyazi Municipality, Akyazi District Governorship etc. it will be possible to present all these studies to the benefit of society.