FROM OUR HISTORY

Renovation-Restoration & Reinforcement Projects had occupied a special place among our areas of interest since the early years of Ferruh Tarman’s professional career.

During his military service, Ferruh Tarman took the position of site manager in Kalender Officer’s Club and Pavilion Restoration and by means of this project; he had the chance to learn from leaders and connoisseurs in restoration such as Architect Mualla Anheger Eyuboglu and Architect Lemi Aksoy.

Our company aims to accomplish the demanded quality in rehabilitation and renovation of old buildings by combining and collaborating “the new” and “the old” together.

Although our country is located on a major seismic belt, the concept of earthquake-resistant construction has been taken into consideration seriously far too late since the foundation of Turkish Republic.  However, certain examples throughout the history could be found.  In 1967, during the Adapazarı-Akyazı earthquake, Adapazarı-Sakarya Governor's Building was seriously damaged.  Afterwards, this building was decided that it would be rehabilitated; and Ferruh Tarman was nominated to be the retrofitting and reinforcement contractor.  The building survived through 17 August 1999 earthquake - another devastating one- remained in “immediate usage level" serving as crisis-management center afterwards.  Confronting the two earthquakes with different structural systems in each time, the building's performances during 22 July 1967 Akyazı Earthquake (Ms=7.1) and during 17 August 1999 East Marmara Earthquake (Mw=7.6) were very informative in terms of experimental data about earthquake engineering.

There had been suggestions to keep the building, which perhaps was the only sample of its own kind, as a museum of earthquake, but unfortunately, it was demolished in 2005; and a new Governor’s Hall was built in the new city center.

Our special interest in projects demanding rehabilitation, retrofitting and renovation of the buildings of various kinds has continued in time.

Unfortunately we could not carry appropriate pictures of those buildings up today. But we keep ‘The Job Completion Certificates’ as memories in our archives.