US magazine picks Sabiha Gökçen as one of the safest airports
Risk Management, a prestigious magazine in the U.S., has selected the Sabiha Gökçen International Airport on the Anatolian side of Istanbul as one of the safest airports in the world, according to a press release.
Risk Management has chosen five buildings as the world’s safest places to be during all natural and human-caused catastrophes. Sabiha Gökçen airport’s new terminal, known to be the world’s biggest building with seismic insulation, was the only Turkish structure on the list.
The press release said the airport has the world’s most modern system for protecting against earthquakes and has hosted 10 million passengers in just over a year since it opened.
The seismic isolators in Sabiha Gökçen’s new terminal are enhanced versions of the isolators used at the San Francisco airport, which is located in one of the most active earthquake regions in U.S. The seismic isolators allow for a quake’s impact to be dampened before it hits carrier columns and masonry. The new Sabiha Gökçen terminal has 300 such isolators.
The other buildings on the list were Fort Knox in the United States, the Svalsgaard Doomsday Seed Vault in Norway, the rebuilt 7 World Trade Center in New York, and Bahnhof’s Underground Data Center in Sweden.
Sabiha Gökçen was previously selected as one of the world’s safest buildings against earthquakes in another prestigious U.S. magazine, Wired, the press release said.
Source: Istanbul Hurriyet Daily News