A conference paper prepared for the 4th Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference which outlines the challenges faced by SCIRT when repairing the Armagh Bridge, Colombo Bridge and Antigua Bridge.
An award submission nominating SCIRT Women in Construction (SWIC) for the 2015 Diversity Awards: Category: Empowerment.
A pdf copy of a PowerPoint presentation used by Duncan Gibb when presenting his Brunel lecture.
A document which details Downer's approach to heritage management when repairing the Armagh Street bridge.
A document which describes the processes that SCIRT took when repairing some of Christchurch's heritage bridges.
Posters created for Beca Heritage Week 2014, outlining SCIRT's repair work on the Armagh Street and Colombo Street bridges in the Central City. They were hung on the bridges for members of the public to read during SCIRT's walk and talk tours.
A run sheet which details who will do what at the opening of the Gloucester Street bridge.
A consent granted by the Christchurch City Council, providing consent to carry out earthquake repair work that may affect protected vegetation.
A consent granted by Environment Canterbury, providing consent to discharge water and contaminants to water.
A pdf copy of a presentation which SCIRT presented to Red Cross volunteers, telling them about what SCIRT is and what it does.
A document containing the flipcharts from the SCIRT and the New Zealand Red Cross design thinking workshop.
A pdf copy of a presentation delivered by Elizabeth McNaughton and Duncan Gibb at the SCIRT and New Zealand Red Cross humaneers action learning group.
A pdf copy of one of a series of presentations which Red Cross presented to SCIRT, telling them about what the community is undergoing and how Red Cross helps.
An authority granted by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, providing the authority to carry out earthquake repair work that may affect archaeological sites within the Lyttelton area.
A copy of the award application which SCIRT, the Christchurch City Council, Environment Canterbury and Beca submitted for the New Zealand Planning Institute Best Practice Award in February 2013.
An authority granted by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, providing the authority to carry out earthquake repair work that may affect archaeological sites within the Christchurch City area.
A flyer which was attached to an email inviting people to the Humaneers action learning group.
A variation to the consent granted by the Christchurch City Council, providing consent to carry out earthquake repair work that may affect protected vegetation.
A runsheet created for the SCIRT and New Zealand Red Cross humaneers action learning group.
A design guideline which defined the role of the Technical Leads within SCIRT technical forums.
A document containing examples of the technical update newsletter which detailed SCIRT innovations. The newsletters in the document were produced between 1 July 2013 and 1 May 2014.
A design guideline which defined the role of the technical forums within SCIRT.
A photograph of a presentation about the EPIC centre during a tour of the building. The tour was conducted as part of FESTA 2012.
A photograph of a presentation about the EPIC centre during a tour of the building. The tour was conducted as part of FESTA 2012.
A submission produced by the consultancies for the ACENZ Innovate NZ Awards of Excellence 2016, providing details about how the design team supporting SCIRT was formed, and how successful design delivery was achieved.
A photograph of a presentation about the EPIC centre during a tour of the building. The tour was conducted as part of FESTA 2012.
The Canterbury earthquakes destroyed the Christchurch CBD and caused massive disruption to business across the region. There was an urgent need to support business survival and foster economic recovery. Recover Canterbury is a hub providing seamless support for businesses affected by the earthquakes, giving them easy access to government and commercial expertise in a one-stop shop.
A video of a presentation by Jane Murray and Stephen Timms during the Social Recovery Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "Land Use Recovery Plan: How an impact assessment process engaged communities in recovery planning".The abstract for this presentation reads as follows: In response to the Canterbury earthquakes, the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery directed Environment Canterbury (Canterbury's regional council) to prepare a Land Use Recovery Plan that would provide a spatial planning framework for Greater Christchurch and aid recovery from the Canterbury earthquakes. The Land Use Recovery Plan sets a policy and planning framework necessary to rebuild existing communities and develop new communities. As part of preparing the plan, an integrated assessment was undertaken to address wellbeing and sustainability concerns. This ensured that social impacts of the plan were likely to achieve better outcomes for communities. The process enabled a wide range of community and sector stakeholders to provide input at the very early stages of drafting the document. The integrated assessment considered the treatment of major land use issues in the plan, e.g. overall distribution of activities across the city, integrated transport routes, housing typography, social housing, employment and urban design, all of which have a key impact on health and wellbeing. Representatives from the Canterbury Health in All Policies Partnership were involved in designing a three-part assessment process that would provide a framework for the Land Use Recovery Plan writers to assess and improve the plan in terms of wellbeing and sustainability concerns. The detail of these assessment stages, and the influence that they had on the draft plan, will be outlined in the presentation. In summary, the three stages involved: developing key wellbeing and sustainability concerns that could form a set of criteria, analysing the preliminary draft of the Land Use Recovery Plan against the criteria in a broad sector workshop, and analysing the content and recommendations of the Draft Plan. This demonstrates the importance of integrated assessment influencing the Land Use Recovery Plan that in turn influences other key planning documents such as the District Plan. This process enabled a very complex document with wide-ranging implications to be broken down, enabling many groups, individuals and organisations to have their say in the recovery process. There is also a range of important lessons for recovery that can be applied to other projects and actions in a disaster recovery situation.
We present the initial findings from a study of adaptive resilience of lifelines organisations providing essential infrastructure services, in Christchurch, New Zealand following the earthquakes of 2010-2011. Qualitative empirical data was collected from 200 individuals in 11 organisations. Analysis using a grounded theory method identified four major factors that aid organisational response, recovery and renewal following major disruptive events. Our data suggest that quality of top and middle-level leadership, quality of external linkages, level of internal collaboration, ability to learn from experience, and staff well-being and engagement influence adaptive resilience. Our data also suggest that adaptive resilience is a process or capacity, not an outcome and that it is contextual. Post-disaster capacity/resources and post-disaster environment influence the nature of adaptive resilience.
The operation of telecommunication networks is critical during business as usual times, and becomes most vital in post-disaster scenarios, when the services are most needed for restoring other critical lifelines, due to inherent interdependencies, and for supporting emergency and relief management tasks. In spite of the recognized critical importance, the assessment of the seismic performance for the telecommunication infrastructure appears to be underrepresented in the literature. The FP6 QuakeCoRE project “Performance of the Telecommunication Network during the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence” will provide a critical contribution to bridge this gap. Thanks to an unprecedented collaboration between national and international researchers and highly experienced asset managers from Chorus, data and evidences on the physical and functional performance of the telecommunication network after the Canterbury Earthquakes 2010-2011 have been collected and collated. The data will be processed and interpreted aiming to reveal fragilities and resilience of the telecommunication networks to seismic events