An engineer who worked for the company that designed the CTV building, has criticised the attitude of his former boss at the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission.
The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission will hear this week that the cost of upgrading the city's unreinforced masonry buildings is more than the buildings are worth.
An earthquake engineer has told the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission that the intense vertical shaking during the February 2011 earthquake wasn't unique and was similar to events overseas.
An incomplete front page layout featuring an article about the Royal Commission enquiry into the CTV building collapse.
Appendix One to the submission of the then New Zealand Historical Places Trust to the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission. The appendix is titled, "Maps of Central Christchurch identifying registered Category I and II historic places and their level of damage sustained following the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake (as at 31 March 2011)".
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 25 July 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 5 September 2012.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Canterbury Earthquakes will today begin to examine the failure of the building that's come to symbolise the damage to the central city.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 15 February 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 29 June 2012.
Page 1 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 26 June 2012.
Page 1 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Thursday 28 June 2012.
The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission has heard the earthquake resilience of stairways in the Forsyth Barr building was compromised when they were installed.
The smaller buildings that collapsed in the Christchurch earthquake, killing those in them as well as passers by, will be the focus of the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission when hearings resume today
The Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission is calling for changes to building standards as a matter of urgency.
The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission has heard that evidence crucial to working out what caused the collapse of the Canterbury Television Building, was destroyed by the firm which oversaw its design.
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 8 February 2012.
The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission has heard how close the city's tallest building came to collapsing entirely during the February 22nd earthquake.
Royal Commission hearings into the Canterbury earthquakes started in Christchurch today, with a indication that questions will be raised about whether some of those trapped in collapsed buildings could have survived.
A graphic illustrating the findings of the Royal Commission enquiry into the CTV building collapse.
A video of Press journalist Martin Van Beynen talking about the Canterbury Television Building which collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Beynen investigates the construction manager of the building, Gerald Shirtcliff, who allegedly faked an engineering degree and stole the identity of an engineer he knew in South Africa. The video also includes footage of Shirtcliff giving evidence about the CTV Building at the Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Friday 6 July 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 11 July 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 28 November 2012.
Page 3 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 13 April 2011.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 27 June 2012.
A graphic illustrating the findings of the Royal Commission enquiry into the CTV building collapse.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Saturday 1 October 2011.
Page 16 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 27 June 2012.
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 18 September 2012.