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Christchurch council grilled over buildings at quake commission
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The Christchurch City Council has faced tough questioning at the Royal Commission into the Canterbury earthquakes over its role in ensuring buildings are earthquake strengthened.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (2)
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A photograph of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (1)
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A photograph of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (3)
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A photograph of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (11)
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A photograph of 94 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (12)
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A photograph of 94 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of 128 Manchester Street (11)
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A photograph of the earthquake damage to 128 Manchester Street. Rubble from the building covers the footpath.
Photograph of 128 Manchester Street (12)
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A photograph of the earthquake damage to 128 Manchester Street. Rubble from the building covers the footpath.
Photograph of 270 St Asaph Street (21)
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A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble from the demolished building at 270 St Asaph Street.
Photograph of 270 St Asaph Street (22)
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A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble from the demolished building at 270 St Asaph Street.
Photograph of the Cranmer Courts, 350 Montreal Street (81)
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A photograph of building rubble lying on a wooden crate on the footpath outside the Cranmer Courts.
Photograph of the Provincial Hotel, 274 Cashel Street (23)
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A photograph of the scaffolding which was constructed around the Provincial Hotel before the building was demolished.
Photograph of 158 Gloucester Street (12)
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A photograph of a piece of fallen masonry from the earthquake-damaged building at 158 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of 141-149 Manchester Street (22)
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A photograph of earthquake damage to 141-149 Manchester Street. Rubble from the building covers the footpath.
Photograph of 270 St Asaph Street (23)
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A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble from the demolished building at 270 St Asaph Street.
Performance of Masonry Buildings and Churches in the 22 February 2011 Chri…
Research papers, The University of Auckland Library
As part of the 'Project Masonry' Recovery Project funded by the New Zealand Natural Hazards Research Platform, commencing in March 2011, an international team of researchers was deployed to document and interpret the observed earthquake damage to masonry buildings and to churches as a result of the 22nd February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The study focused on investigating commonly encountered failure patterns and collapse mechanisms. A brief summary of activities undertaken is presented, detailing the observations that were made on the performance of and the deficiencies that contributed to the damage to approximately 650 inspected unreinforced clay brick masonry (URM) buildings, to 90 unreinforced stone masonry buildings, to 342 reinforced concrete masonry (RCM) buildings, to 112 churches in the Canterbury region, and to just under 1100 residential dwellings having external masonry veneer cladding. In addition, details are provided of retrofit techniques that were implemented within relevant Christchurch URM buildings prior to the 22nd February earthquake and brief suggestions are provided regarding appropriate seismic retrofit and remediation techniques for stone masonry buildings. http://www.nzsee.org.nz/publications/nzsee-quarterly-bulletin/
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2014
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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The demolition site of the Press building and Warners Hotel in Cathedral Square. The site has now been filled and compressed so that it provides a much pleasanter environment. From here, there is now a marvellous view of the Heritage Apartments building, which allows us a wider perspective of the building than was possible before".
Slane, Christopher, 1957-:[Restoring historic buildings post earthquake in…
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Prime Minister John Key drives a tractor to which is attached a crane and a huge demolition ball in the shape of MP Gerry Brownlee's head; the ball smashes against a historic building bringing stone pediments down. Context - Gerry Brownlee, who is Earthquake Recovery Minister, has caused a stir by suggesting that if he had his way some of Christchurch's older buildings would be "down tomorrow". He also said the price of saving some historic buildings badly damaged in the February 22 earthquake was too high. People had died in the quake because of attempts to save historic buildings badly damaged in the September 4 quake. Brownlee said he had no regrets despite the stir his comments caused - but he was annoyed by suggestions the Cathedral and Riccarton House were among buildings he thought should be bowled. He believed those buildings should be saved, and they would be. "I'm not a philistine; I was chairman of the trust that actually saved Riccarton House from the bulldozers in 1990. "I understand conservation architecture very well and I do have an appreciation of heritage buildings." Original cartoon held at A-474-048 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (8)
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A photograph of a detail of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (6)
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A photograph of a window of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (5)
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A photograph of a window of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (14)
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A photograph of a window of 94 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (10)
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A photograph of a detail of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (9)
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A photograph of a detail of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (13)
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A photograph of a window of 94 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (7)
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A photograph of a detail of 96 Gloucester Street.
Photograph of the Gas Company Building, 94-96 Gloucester Street (4)
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A photograph of the windows of 96 Gloucester Street.
Officials put barriers in way of strengthening building - owner
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A Christchurch businessman has told the Earthquake Royal Commission the city council was a nightmare to deal with when he was trying to strengthen his building before the September quake.
Role of engineer in inspecting Chch building under spotlight
Audio, Radio New Zealand
A structural engineer who ordered a building green stickered though he'd failed to do another thorough check on it has defended his inspections at the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission.
Family of quake victim question safety of building
Audio, Radio New Zealand
The family of a young man who died while protecting his sister during February's earthquake in Christchurch says the building they were in wasn't safe.