Catalyst for life-saving change in safety

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A document which describes SCIRT's approach to ensuring zero harm during its five and a half year programme of work.

Critical Risk 1 Health and Safety Toolbox - service strikes

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A document which outlines how to work safely around underground services, created to discuss with site staff at on-site "toolbox talks".

Real asset in innovative damage assessment

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A document which outlines SCIRT's post-earthquake asset assessment process.

SCIRT, The Construction Industry Health and Safety Leaders - poster

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A poster created by University of Canterbury students outlining their findings from examining SCIRT's approach to managing health and safety.

Project prioritisation - right thing, right time, right place

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A document which outlines how SCIRT prioritised the 634 construction projects within its programme of work.

Project Prioritisation Management Plan

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A document which describes SCIRT's framework, principles and process of defining projects and the process of prioritising those projects.

SCIRT asset assessment request process

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A diagram which illustrates SCIRT's asset assessment request process.

Multi Criteria Analysis Asset Prioritisation Tool

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A document which outlines the processes involved in the Multi Criteria Analysis Asset Prioritisation tool. It also talks about assumptions made and potential gaps.

Rebuild actual start date map

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A map showing the actual construction start dates.

Board Paper - SCIRT Health and Safety Policy

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A board paper which asks the SCIRT board to review and revise SCIRT's existing Health and Safety Policy.

Bill Perry Safety Award winners

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A document which summarises each winning Bill Perry Safety Award submission.

Learning from Innovation

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An article published in the August/September 2015 issue of BRANZ Build magazine. It summarises SCIRT's approach to innovation management and suggests some areas for improvement.

SCIRT requirements for utility location and protection

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A document which describes the processes and procedures SCIRT designers and delivery teams had to follow to locate and protect utilities.

Relationship Between Early Contractor Involvement and Financial Performanc…

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A paper written by Paul S Botha and Eric Scheepbouwer for the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2504, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2015, pp. 66-72.

SCIRT service strikes bowtie diagram

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A bowtie diagram which SCIRT used to evaluate the risks associated with and analyse the causal relationships associated with service strikes.

Early involvement builds successful framework

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A document which discusses the importance of the ECI process at SCIRT.

Examples of SCIRT Safety Alerts - Critical Risk 1 - Service Strikes

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A document which contains several examples of SCIRT Safety Alerts, which were documents sent out to inform and educate all site staff after an incident.

ECI team deliverables

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A document which outlines the roles, responsibilities and deliverables of people involved with the SCIRT ECI process.

Setting national standards for utilities coordination and protection - SCI…

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A document which describes how SCIRT led the co-ordination of its huge repair programme with those of other utilities.

Driving Innovative Thinking in the New Zealand Construction Industry - pre…

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A pdf copy of a presentation delivered at Building a Better New Zealand (BBNZ 2014) Conference. The presentation examines the relationship between innovation and productivity improvement in the construction industry.

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 325

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A photograph of a sign reading, "Workshop, cafes, clothes, ski shop open".

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 160

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A photograph of a toy dog on a cafe table in Cashel Mall.

BeckerFraserPhotos October 2011 photograph 213

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Establishment Apartments under demolition, on the corner of Peterborough and Victoria Streets".

BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 135

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "People gathering for The Big Hug".

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2011 photograph 392

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Houses perched on the edge of the cliff above Peacock's Gallop. Below, a line of shipping containers are protecting the road from further rockfall.

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 1001

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2011 photograph 323

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The damaged chimney of a house on the corner of Galbraith Avenue and Avonside Drive. The top section of the chimney has fallen off and the whole chimney has moved away from the building's wall. The chimney has been weather proofed with a yellow tarpaulin.

BeckerFraserPhotos October 2010 photograph 023

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The east wall of St Luke's Church on Manchester Street. The top of the wall has broken away and is now covered with plastic to prevent weather damage inside the building.

Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book Page 128

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A scan of page 130 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.

Unsanctioned Graffiti Across the City Photograph 3

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A photograph of graffiti by DEAK on a wall in Cashel Street.