The old Robertson's Bakery building, Victoria Street, Christchurch
An aerial photograph of Kilmore Street with a new medical facility under construction.
Forbes' Store on Norwich Quay with a broken awning and damage visible on the brick walls. Scaffolding placed around the building since the 4 September 2010 earthquake has tumbled during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Forbes' Store on Norwich Quay with a broken awning and damage visible on the brick walls. Scaffolding placed around the building since the 4 September 2010 earthquake has tumbled during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A crushed car on Gloucester Street. Bricks from the building above fell during the earthquake onto the car. A yellow 'C' has been spray painted onto the car, indicating that it is clear of people.
Transcript of participant number LY960's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A member of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their new office in the James Hight building.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A damaged window of the Bank of New Zealand building in Kaiapoi".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Bank of New Zealand building viewed from Williams Street in Kaiapoi".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Bank of New Zealand building viewed from Williams Street in Kaiapoi".
A member of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their new office in the James Hight building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "86-106 Manchester Street. Foundations for a new building for EPIC technology centre".
A member of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their new office in the James Hight building.
A member of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their new office in the James Hight building.
Members of the New Zealand Police lifting a dog in a harness through the window of a damaged building.
Following the magnitude 6.3 aftershock in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 22 February 2011, a number of researchers were sent to Christchurch as part of the New Zealand Natural Hazard Research Platform funded “Project Masonry” Recovery Project. Their goal was to document and interpret the damage to the masonry buildings and churches in the region. Approximately 650 unreinforced and retrofitted clay brick masonry buildings in the Christchurch area were surveyed for commonly occurring failure patterns and collapse mechanisms. The entire building stock of Christchurch, and in particular the unreinforced masonry building stock, is similar to that in the rest of New Zealand, Australia, and abroad, so the observations made here are relevant for the entire world.
An aerial photograph of Cathedral Square. Captions added by BeckerFraserPhotos identify the demolition sites of key buildings.
A paper delivered at Building a Better New Zealand (BBNZ 2014) Conference. The paper examines the relationship between innovation and productivity improvement in the construction industry.
The former Government Life building in Christchurch's Cathedral Square will be demolished. On my walk around the city May 21, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand. www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christch...
The performance of retrofitted unreinforced masonry (URM) bearing wall buildings in Christchurch is examined, considering ground motion recordings from multiple events. Suggestions for how the experiences in Christchurch might be relevant to retrofit practices common to New Zealand, U.S. and Canada are also provided. Whilst the poor performance of unretrofitted URM buildings in earthquakes is well known, much less is known about how retrofitted URM buildings perform when subjected to strong ground shaking.
Transcript of Robyn Gosset's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A tram car moving down New Regent Street. Behind it, scaffolding has been constructed on the facades of several buildings.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view of Cathedral Square from high up in the new Press Building".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view of Cathedral Square from high up in the new Press Building".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view of Cathedral Square from high up in the new Press Building".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view down Gloucester Street with the new Press building on the left".
A photograph of a chalked message on the side of a building in New Brighton. The message reads, "Stay strong".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view of Cathedral Square from high up in the new Press Building".
A photograph of members of the New Zealand USAR team examining the collapsed basement of a building in central Christchurch.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Girls High School with the brightly painted new Library building in the background".