A public talk by Helina Stil, South Island Manager at Nikau Contractors. This talk, entitled 'Deconstruction to construction', formed part of the Plenary Two session, 'Clearing the decks'.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The deconstruction nibbler behind the Brannigan's building".
Deconstruction of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. A crane and digger are seen at work.
A video of excavators demolishing the former railway station on Moorhouse Avenue. The building was only moderately damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake, but repair work was deemed too costly for the co-owner, Science Alive!.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Holiday Inn under deconstruction at 172 Cashel Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of the Strange's building on the north-west corner of Lichfield and High Streets. Bonnington House can also be seen, covered with scaffolding during the repair process".
Buckled columns on a house in Wainoni. The photographer comments, "A Sunday afternoon ride to New Brighton, then back via Aranui, Wainoni, Dallington, and Richmond. Not a cheerful experience. 'We've decided you're a repair, not a rebuild after all'. Actually, I think these houses might be red zoned".
A video of a presentation by Ian Campbell, Executive General Manager of the Stronger Christchurch Rebuild Team (SCIRT), during the third plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Putting People at the Heart of the Rebuild".The abstract for this presentation reads: On the face of it, the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT) is an organisation created to engineer and carry out approximately $2B of repairs to physical infrastructure over a 5-year period. Our workforce consists primarily of engineers and constructors who came from far and wide after the earthquakes to 'help fix Christchurch'. But it was not the technical challenges that drew them all here. It was the desire and ambition expressed in the SCIRT 'what we are here for' statement: 'to create resilient infrastructure that gives people security and confidence in the future of Christchurch'. For the team at SCIRT, people are at the heart of our rebuild programme. This is recognised in the intentional approach SCIRT takes to all aspects of its work. The presentation will touch upon how SCIRT communicated with communities affected by our work and how we planned and coordinated the programme to minimise the impacts, while maximising the value for both the affected communities and the taxpayers of New Zealand and rate payers of Christchurch funding it. The presentation will outline SCIRT's very intentional approach to supporting, developing, connecting, and enabling our people to perform, individually, and collectively, in the service of providing the best outcome for the people of Christchurch and New Zealand.
A digitally manipulated image of damaged buildings on St Asaph Street.
A video about the discovery of a historic tramline on North Avon Road. The video includes an interview with Brent Leersynder, a site engineer for SCIRT, and Steve Timpson, site foreman for SCIRT. The SCIRT team found the tramline while repairing the damaged wastewater system under North Avon Road in May.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Grant Thornton building in Cathedral Square being readied for deconstruction".
A photograph of the former main entrance to the Crown Plaza Hotel, showing deconstruction work in progress.
A photograph of the former main entrance to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, showing deconstruction work in progress.
A photograph of the former main entrance to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, showing deconstruction work in progress.
A photograph of the former main entrance to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, showing deconstruction work in progress.
A photograph of the former main entrance to the Crown Plaza Hotel, showing deconstruction work in progress.
A photograph of the former main entrance to the Crown Plaza Hotel, showing deconstruction work in progress.
A photograph of the former main entrance to the Crown Plaza Hotel, showing deconstruction work in progress.
Detail of the deconstruction of the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The windows in the building has been removed.
Workers working on the deconstruction of Clarendon Towers from the corner of Worcester Boulevard and Oxford Terrace.
A photograph of the former main entrance to the Crown Plaza Hotel, showing deconstruction work in progress.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Gunyah homestead was badly damaged during the September 4th 2010 earthquake, but the Cotterill family are picking up the pieces and rebuilding. Builders repair the master bedroom where a large brick chimney came through the room narrowly missing the Cotterills and totally obliterating their bed".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Gunyah homestead was badly damaged during the September 4th 2010 earthquake, but the Cotterill family are picking up the pieces and rebuilding. Builders repair the master bedroom where a large brick chimney came through the room narrowly missing the Cotterills and totally obliterating their bed".
The deconstruction of the former Lyttelton Fire station/Stanaway house on the corner of London and Oxford Streets.
The deconstruction of the former Lyttelton Fire station/Stanaway house on the corner of London and Oxford Streets.
The deconstruction of the former Lyttelton Fire station/Stanaway house on the corner of London and Oxford Streets.
The deconstruction of the former Lyttelton Fire station/Stanaway house on the corner of London and Oxford Streets.
The deconstruction of the former Lyttelton Fire station/Stanaway house on the corner of London and Oxford Streets.
The deconstruction of the former Lyttelton Fire station/Stanaway house on the corner of London and Oxford Streets.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cathedral Square with the Cathedral in the foreground, the Novotel Hotel behind and BNZ building under deconstruction on the right".