Tenants
Five of the CTV building’s six floors were in use at the time of its collapse:
- Local broadcaster Canterbury Television occupied Levels 1 and 2 and held naming rights for the building. 16 staff members were killed when the earthquake struck; only one person on these levels survived, running outside from the ground floor reception.
- Level 3 was untenanted and therefore empty when the earthquake struck.
- Level 4 was the busiest, as the home of King’s Education language school. 80 staff and students died when the building collapsed.
- Level 5 was newly occupied by medical practice The Clinic. They had recently moved to the CTV building when their old facilities on Gloucester Street were declared unsafe. 18 staff and patients were killed in the earthquake.
- Level 6 held a not-for-profit counselling agency called Relationship Services. Of the 19 people on this level, one died when the building collapsed. The survivors on Level 6 made up over half of the survivors in the entire building.
- For more information about Level 6, you can explore the Relationship Services tag on the CEISMIC archive, or visit this article (continued on Page 5 and Page 6) for a general overview of the business and their staff’s experiences when the CTV building collapsed.
Credit: The Press, Fairfax Media New Zealand. Source: https://quakestudies.canterbury.ac.nz/store/object/224352 (left) https://quakestudies.canterbury.ac.nz/store/object/224349 (right)
NOTE: some of the numbers on the left infographic are incorrect.
To find out more about these businesses and how they were affected, click one of the information pages to the right.