The City Hall of the Capital wants to identify priority intervention areas to reduce seismic risk

Producer: The City Hall of the Capital wants to identify priority intervention areas to reduce seismic risk. The World Bank estimates that there are 20.000 earthquake-vulnerable buildings in Bucharest, and the Municipality has concluded contracts of 50 million euros for the consolidation of some of them through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The statement was made by Razvan Munteanu, executive director of the Municipal Administration for the Consolidation of Buildings with Seismic Risk, at a profile conference.

Razvan Munteanu: From the statistical data we have, the World Bank estimates that in Bucharest we have 20.000 buildings vulnerable to seismic risk. Sure, they are not all in a seismic risk class, but they were built before 1977 and are vulnerable. In our databases, we have around 2.500 buildings classified as first seismic risk class, second seismic risk class or emergency class. Any building entering a consolidation program must go through two major stages: a project preparation stage and an implementation stage. Somewhere around 60-65% of our time is taken up by the preparation part, after which, of course, we enter the execution component, that is, actually implementing the project. The preparation part takes about a year and a half, the execution part - two years.

Translated by: Radu Matei