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PADANG SETTING UP QUAKE-RESISTANT BUILDING PILOT PROJECT
Padang, West Sumatra, Oct 27 (ANTARA) - Padang city`s administration and a religious organization, Budha Sutji, are to rebuild a collapsed local junior high school (SMP 1) but at the same time make it a quake-resistant building pilot project.
"The new SMP 1 building will be designed to survive earthquakes measuring 7.9 or more on the Richter scale. This place is also designed as shelter for residents when a tsunami hits the city," Padang Mayor Fauzi Bahar said here on Tuesday.
He said the pilot project would be built on a 1.5-hectare plot of land in Padang city. The school will be equipped with laboratories and basketball field while the roof of the upper floor can serve as a heliport for the purpose of evacuation whenever a natural disaster occurs.
SMP 1 as a quake-resistant building, Fauzi added, is expected to inspire people in the city to build places with the same characteristics to minimize the number of victims.
According to the mayor, the powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale which hit West Sumatra and surroundings last September 30 had caused damage to 75 percent of schools in the area. Therefore, he added, assistance from private parties was needed to accelerate the normalization of teaching activity in the city.
The earthquake with its epicenter 78 km northwest of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, at a depth of 71 km in the seabed also destroyed 101,653 houses, and caused damage to 97,995 others.
A number of hotels, restaurants and their supporting facilities were also destroyed. Of the 47 star-rated hotels in West Sumatra, 24 were damaged, 11 of which were devastated, like the Ambacang, Rocky Plaza, Mariani, Nuasa and Hayam Wuruk hotels.
According to data from West Sumatra`s Natural Disaster Mitigation Agency (Satkorlak PB), the province`s provisional material losses amounted to l Rp 2 trillion. ***3***
"The new SMP 1 building will be designed to survive earthquakes measuring 7.9 or more on the Richter scale. This place is also designed as shelter for residents when a tsunami hits the city," Padang Mayor Fauzi Bahar said here on Tuesday.
He said the pilot project would be built on a 1.5-hectare plot of land in Padang city. The school will be equipped with laboratories and basketball field while the roof of the upper floor can serve as a heliport for the purpose of evacuation whenever a natural disaster occurs.
SMP 1 as a quake-resistant building, Fauzi added, is expected to inspire people in the city to build places with the same characteristics to minimize the number of victims.
According to the mayor, the powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale which hit West Sumatra and surroundings last September 30 had caused damage to 75 percent of schools in the area. Therefore, he added, assistance from private parties was needed to accelerate the normalization of teaching activity in the city.
The earthquake with its epicenter 78 km northwest of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, at a depth of 71 km in the seabed also destroyed 101,653 houses, and caused damage to 97,995 others.
A number of hotels, restaurants and their supporting facilities were also destroyed. Of the 47 star-rated hotels in West Sumatra, 24 were damaged, 11 of which were devastated, like the Ambacang, Rocky Plaza, Mariani, Nuasa and Hayam Wuruk hotels.
According to data from West Sumatra`s Natural Disaster Mitigation Agency (Satkorlak PB), the province`s provisional material losses amounted to l Rp 2 trillion. ***3***
