In video: A sinkhole opens at a construction site in Hod Hasharon Municipality of Hod Hasharon (Hod Hasharon Municipality)
It happens again.
The land is not up to the scope of the works being carried out in Israel, and is simply collapsing: starting with the multiple works on the heavy and light rail, the metro project, nationwide infrastructure works and endless real estate projects.
Don't get me wrong, construction is a positive thing and even desirable - but when the State of Israel is among the countries The units in the advanced world that do not have an obligation to supervise construction - less positive things can happen, such as what happened yesterday in Hod Hasharon.
We remind those who did not follow - yesterday a landslide was reported at a construction site on 6 Tsanchananim Street in Hod Hasharon, where the TAMA 38 project is being carried out. In accordance with the guidelines Firefighting and in coordination with the municipal forces on the spot, it was decided to temporarily evacuate two buildings on 4 and 6 Parachute Street as a safety measure, until the initial treatment is completed and decisions are made - when later the residents of the buildings were informed that they would not be able to return to their homes that day.
From a preliminary inspection conducted yesterday, it emerged that the soil leakage occurred in a robotic parking lot that was excavated on the site and there is a danger of the scaffolding in the TMA building moving. In addition, due to the soil leakage, a section of road was closed until the impact was checked and another building (4) was evacuated until the construction was checked.
Land collapse at a construction site on 6 Tsanchananim Street in Hod Hasharon (photo: official website, fire and rescue barges)
As I recall, this is not the first case of a landslide in Hod Hasharon - as only last Saturday (January 14) there was another unusual incident in the city, when a car driving on Haganim Street fell into a sinkhole, and about two months ago another sinkhole opened in the parking lot of a residential building on Smetat Dror Street in the city, apparently as a result from works that took place nearby.
why is it happening?
We asked the engineer Israel David, chairman of the Union of Construction and Infrastructure Engineers, who claims that TMA 38 projects are more of a danger than a benefit: "Instead of TMA being an engine for strengthening, it has become a real estate bonanza, easy money for entrepreneurs Little ones who are not interested in the reinforcement.
For them, this is an excess expense."
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TAMA 38 - "The backyard of the branch"
In recent years, a number of buildings that underwent TMA 38 collapsed around the country. About five years ago, a building that underwent TMA 38-1 process partially collapsed in Kiryat Bialik.
Luckily the occupants were not injured.
Earlier, two cases of building collapse occurred on Herzl Street and Kalisher Street in Tel Aviv.
The collapse of the building in Herzl Tel Aviv left a worker dead and five injured.
Another hard-to-digest case occurred in April 2021 - when the floor of a residential apartment on Eshtaul Street 5 in Ramat Gan collapsed and opened a hole in the middle of the living room about three meters deep.
The building in Ashtaul and another building on Rashi 10 Street were defined as dangerous by the municipality and their residents were evacuated for fear of a general collapse. The Ramat Gan Municipality stated at the time that this was due to excavation and filling of a project adjacent to Rashi 12 Street that is under construction, which caused soil leakage, until the floor in the apartments collapsed .
Not the first case in Hod Hasharon: a car driving through the streets of the city fell into a sinkhole (photo: Israel Police spokeswoman)
"Projects of TMA 38 require very high skills," says the engineer Israel David, chairman of the Union of Construction and Infrastructure Engineers and owner of David Engineers office, "It's open heart surgery, together with the replacement of intestines and lungs.
Usually, the biggest experts are sent for this type of surgery, but at TMA 38 the best 'surgeons' don't work, but small contractors, who hire a subcontractor and so on."
"The level of execution is not high to say the least, and to put it bluntly, this is the backyard of the construction industry. The State of Israel is the only country that does not have an obligation to supervise construction. There is supervision of aviation, education, kosher, and health, but no obligation to supervise construction. When action needs to be taken Complex in an existing building, the combination of inexperienced contractors, the complexity of the execution, old buildings that are decades old, affect ground movements."
"In projects like this, the operations are crazy. If you want to build a parking lot, you keep the building in the air in the meantime. The operations are complex and the risk management is very high. This is not the first case that has happened, so the whole TMA story is a bluff.
Instead of the TMA being an engine for strengthening, it has become a real estate bonanza, easy money for small entrepreneurs who are not interested in strengthening.
For them, this is an excess expense.
The tenants want to get another room and for the mayors this is a political leverage."
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