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BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0295
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An aerial photograph of the Westpac Trust building on High Street and surrounding buildings.
Child standing beside a damaged building on Colombo Street
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Child standing beside a damaged building on Colombo Street, with the Copthorne Hotel and Forsyth Barr buildings in the background.
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2050
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A photograph of buildings along Armagh Street near Victoria Square, including the Victoria Apartments and the Forsyth Barr Building. A noticable forward lean can be seen in the Victoria Apartments.
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2013 photograph 129
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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Telecom building, the Old Exchange Building and the Old Post Office are all in this photo as well as the Millennium Hotel and a few cranes".
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 519
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Rubble in Cathedral Square being stockpiled to provide a high base platform for the giant nibbler to demolish the Grant Thornton building (upper left) and the Government Life building (right)".
Former Nurse Maude building, Madras Street
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Photographs of the former Nurse Maude building, 192 Madras Street, taken November 2010. Note that the Southern Blues Bar, 196 Madras Street, has since been demolished. From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
Empowered Christchurch Letter to Peter Sparrow
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
A copy of a letter from Empowered Christchurch to Peter Sparrow, Director of Building Control and Rebuild at the Christchurch City Council, sent on 23 October 2014. The letter is a response to another letter sent by Peter Sparrow to Empowered Christchurch regarding existing use rights and exemptions from a building consent. In this letter, Empowered Christchurch requests furthur clarification from the Christchurch Building Consent Authority about these concepts.
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0330
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An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street looking west towards Latimer Square. The new Press Building and the Marque/Pacific Towers buildings are at the centre of the photo with the Cathedral in the lower right".
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 014
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cranes dominating the sky in the central city".
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2012 photograph 221
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "View centered on the Millennium Hotel in Cathedral Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0917
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An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "CBD, New Regent Street (lower left), Cathedral Square (left centre) and Provincial Council Chambers (right centre)".
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 579
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The BNZ building on Armagh Street with the PWC building under construction and Copthorne Hotel being demolished behind. The Forsyth Barr building can also be seen".
BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 659
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The ground floor of the IRD building on the corner of Cashel and Madras Streets, taken through the Madras Street window. The book market inside the building is almost undisturbed while next door, the CTV building collapsed.
BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 550
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Forsyth Barr Building on the corner of Colombo and Armagh Streets with PricewaterhouseCoopers Building to the left and Marque Hotel in the distance".
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0306
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An aerial photograph of the Forsyth Bar building near Victoria Square. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Forsyth Barr building at 764 Colombo Street, with Victoria Square behind. This building is staying".
WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 092
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A photograph of the southern end of the Provincial Chambers Building taken through a car window. The roof and the wall of the building have collapsed on the right.
Damaged buildings on Hereford Street
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Damaged buildings on Hereford Street.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 737
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street car park building, which is a listed heritage site. Viewed from Manchester Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos March 2013 photograph 179
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An aerial photograph of the historic BNZ building on Williams Street in Kaiapoi.
BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 269
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking across the demolition site of Brannigans towards Cathedral Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 716
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "IRD building, viewed across the empty site where the CTV building was".
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 524
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The rear of the old Telecom building at 95 Hereford Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos September 2011 photograph 581
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Former Government Life building, Cathedral Square".
BeckerFraserPhotos May 2011 photograph 0269
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Press Building, Cathedral Square. Top floor collapsed during the February 22 earthquake".
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 204
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Looking north from Worcester Street towards the recently-occupied Press building on Gloucester Street. In the background is the PricewaterhouseCoopers building.
BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 202
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "PricewaterhouseCoopers Building in Armagh Street viewed from Worcester Street".
BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 0331
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An aerial photograph of Cathedral Square. Captions added by BeckerFraserPhotos identify the demolition sites of key buildings.
A Value Case for Seismic Isolation of Residential Buildings
Research papers, University of Canterbury Library
Seismic isolation is an effective technology for significantly reducing damage to buildings and building contents. However, its application to light-frame wood buildings has so far been unable to overcome cost and technical barriers such as susceptibility to movement during high-wind loading. The precursor to research in the field of isolation of residential buildings was the 1994 Northridge Earthquake (6.7 MW) in the United States and the 1995 Kobe Earthquake (6.9 MW) in Japan. While only a small number of lives were lost in residential buildings in these events, the economic impact was significant with over half of earthquake recovery costs given to repair and reconstruction of residential building damage. A value case has been explored to highlight the benefits of seismically isolated residential buildings compared to a standard fixed-base dwellings for the Wellington region. Loss data generated by insurance claim information from the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake has been used by researchers to determine vulnerability functions for the current light-frame wood building stock. By further considering the loss attributed to drift and acceleration sensitive components, and a simplified single degree of freedom (SDOF) building model, a method for determining vulnerability functions for seismic isolated buildings was developed. Vulnerability functions were then applied directly in a loss assessment using the GNS developed software, RiskScape. Vulnerability was shown to dramatically reduce for isolated buildings compared to an equivalent fixed-base building and as a result, the monetary savings in a given earthquake scenario were significant. This work is expected to drive further interest for development of solutions for the seismic isolation of residential dwellings, of which one option is further considered and presented herein.
BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 344
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The badly-damaged Strategy building on Victoria Street. The outer walls on the bottom two stories have collapsed into the building below.
BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 220
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The site of a demolished building on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street where steel has been laid for the foundations of a new building.