Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
Members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue team taking a break from working on the CTV Building site.
Two diggers at the site of the CTV Building. In the background, the elevator shaft can still be seen.
A member of the New Zealand Fire Service in a cherry picker spraying water at the fire burning in the collapsed Canterbury Television Building. Smoke is billowing out of the intact section of the building. Below, emergency personnel are searching the rubble for trapped people. A piece of corrugated plastic is being used to slide pieces of debris off the site.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new Press building on Gloucester Street at dusk. The central city red zone now has office workers and lights on".
A member of the New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team working on the site of the CTV Building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "New building at 511 Papanui Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "160 Gloucester Street. New Press Building".
Members of the New Zealand and Japanese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams working on the site of the CTV Building.
A member of the New Zealand Search and Rescue Team (USAR) guiding a digger on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the New Zealand and Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams working on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the New Zealand and Japanese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams working on the site of the CTV Building.
Members of the Police and Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams digging through rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
Three members of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team taking a break at the site of the CTV Building.
A view down New Regent Street. Several of the buildings have had their verandahs propped with steel poles, and scaffolding has been constructed on the facade of one of the buildings.
A member of the New Zealand Police with a skateboard extracted from the collapsed Canterbury Television Building on Madras Street Behind him, emergency personnel can be seen searching the rubble for trapped people. Above the workers is the arm of an excavator which has been used to shift rubble.
The damaged Ozone Hotel on Marine Parade. Fallen bricks lie on the ground in front of the building, which is surrounded by security fencing. The photographer comments, "A bike ride to New Brighton and the beach 3 weeks after the Feb 22 quake. Roads were still very rough and under reconstruction. Some buildings are still standing. but don't look too healthy".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The lights are on at the new Press building, the first office workers to return to the central city red zone".
Members of the New Zealand and Chinese Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams clearing rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
An aerial view of Christchurch a week after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The PGC Building on Cambridge Terrace can be seen.
A truck fire fighter from the Christchurch City Council Rural Fire Authority spraying water on the road next to the CTV Building.
An aerial view of Christchurch a week after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The PGC Building on Cambridge Terrace can be seen.
Aerial image of the CTV Building site on Madras Street, taken by the Royal New Zealand Air Force for the Earthquake Commission.
A member of the Chinese Urban Search and Rescue teamwatching as a digger clears rubble on the site of the CTV Building.
A view across Manchester Street to the National Library of New Zealand building.
The partially demolished BNZ building on Armargh Street, seen from New Regent Street.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Archives New Zealand building in Christchurch".
Following the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes the seismic design of buildings with precast concrete panels has received significant attention. Although this form of construction generally performed adequately in Christchurch, there were a considerable number of precast concrete panel connection failures. This observation prompted a review of more than 4700 panel details from 108 buildings to establish representative details used in both existing and new multi-storey and low rise industrial precast concrete buildings in three major New Zealand cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Details were collected from precast manufacturers and city councils and were categorised according to type. The detailing and quantity of each reviewed connection type in the sampled data is reported, and advantages and potential deficiencies of each connection type are discussed. The results of this survey provide a better understanding of the relative prevalence of common detailing used in precast concrete panels and guidance for the design of future experimental studies. http://www.nzsee.org.nz/publications/nzsee-quarterly-bulletin/
Demolition of the old Millers building is just about complemented. On my walk around the city in the rain.. thought it may have stopped.. but didn't so I just kept walking! June 12, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A new building, Westende Building on the corner of Manchester and Worcester Streets is nearing completion. Radio Network House (behind) to be demolished".