Gwangju City to Complete Full Survey of Semi-basement Houses Before Typhoon and Heavy Rain
Collaboration with the Gwangju Architectural Association Federation
Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Kang Gi-jung) announced on the 15th that it will conduct a full survey of approximately 1,400 semi-basement houses vulnerable to flooding.
This survey will be carried out in collaboration with the Gwangju Architectural Organizations Federation (Korean Institute of Architects, Architectural Institute of Korea, Korea Institute of Registered Architects), composed of experts including architects and Gwangju city officials.
The city extracted about 1,400 residential buildings with basements from over 5,800 buildings with underground floors listed in the building register.
This is to conduct a thorough status investigation of buildings used as semi-basement houses and to complete the full survey before the summer rainy season.
Recently, Gwangju City held a meeting with the Gwangju Architectural Organizations Federation to request cooperation for the full survey of flood-vulnerable semi-basement houses, and the federation agreed to actively cooperate with Gwangju’s architectural administration for disaster prevention.
Among the approximately 1,400 locations subject to the full survey, Gwangju City will survey about 200 sites in areas with high flood risk, and the Gwangju Architectural Organizations Federation will survey about 1,200 sites.
The survey will include ▲whether residents live in basement or semi-basement floors and the number of households ▲history of flooding ▲distance from adjacent manholes ▲presence of height differences with adjacent lots, among other factors.
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Park Geum-hwa, Director of the Architecture and Landscape Division, said, “Since the full survey of flood-vulnerable semi-basement houses in the region is being conducted in collaboration with experts from the Gwangju Architectural Organizations Federation, we will carefully investigate the safety of basement residents and do our best to complete the survey before the summer typhoon and heavy rain season.”
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