The loud noise that came from Israeli warplanes breaking the sound wall, in two waves this afternoon in Beirut and the surrounding areas, broke the glass in a building in the Bchamoun area, and the roof of a house fell in Bir Hassan also as a result. of the violent vibrations caused by the wall of sound.
The head of the Lebanese Buildings Authority, the lawyer Indira Al-Zuhairi, confirmed in an interview with “Lebanon Debit”, “There is no doubt that the issue of breaking the sound wall was very important in the warnings our new due to the special thing. conditions that Lebanon is going through and the expansion of the area of breaking the sound wall to the Lebanese airspace, where it is no longer limited to old buildings where concrete is cracked and eroded due to antiquity and lack of maintenance or because of exceptional rent laws.”
Al-Zuhairi says: “We focused on these buildings because when they were being handled, they were not in accordance with technical foundations that met the requirements of public safety standards, because they were not firmly secured on due to the cost of the treatment materials, it is natural for us to see and hear the consequences of breaking the sound barrier, ie the ceilings falling.” Or some buildings collapsing, whether it’s the roofs of apartments or even balconies, there’s a fundamental fault in the foundations of some buildings that could completely collapse.”
She said: “We warn that the buildings at risk of breaking sound barriers are located in densely populated neighbourhoods, and that parts of them could fall onto passers-by and public buildings and private. So, we hope that this crisis will pass well. “
Al-Zuhairi emphasizes that “the issue of breaking the sound barrier at low altitude is a dangerous issue to the extent that when we hear the sound barrier we think that an explosion will occur, which makes the buildings shake dangerously, as we see glass. collapse in some homes and other consequences that could pose serious risks to people’s health. “
2024-08-05 14:12:11
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