Various rebuilding and repairing activities on Gloucester Street, with road signs and cranes in the background.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "University of Canterbury glass replacement".
A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Andrews Hill Road, Mount Pleasant".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "University of Canterbury glass replacement".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "University of Canterbury glass replacement".
A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Andrews Hill Road, Mount Pleasant".
A guideline created for SCIRT Delivery Teams which outlines the requirements for working around heritage items.
A run sheet which details who will do what at the opening of the Gloucester Street bridge.
The 2010-2011 Christchurch earthquakes generated damage in several Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings, which had RC walls as the principal resistant element against earthquake demand. Despite the agreement between structural engineers and researchers in an overall successfully performance there was a lack of knowledge about the behaviour of the damaged structures, and even deeper about a repaired structure, which triggers arguments between different parties that remains up to these days. Then, it is necessary to understand the capacity of the buildings after the earthquake and see how simple repairs techniques improve the building performance. This study will assess the residual capacity of ductile slender RC walls according to current standards in New Zealand, NZS 3101.1 2006 A3. First, a Repaired RC walls Database is created trying to gather previous studies and to evaluate them with existing international guidelines. Then, an archetype building is designed, and the wall is extracted and scaled. Four half-scale walls were designed and will be constructed and tested at the Structures Testing Laboratory at The University of Auckland. The overall dimensions are 3 [m] height, 2 [m] length and 0.175 [m] thick. All four walls will be identical, with differences in the loading protocol and the presence or absence of a repair technique. Results are going to be useful to assess the residual capacity of a damaged wall compare to the original behaviour and also the repaired capacity of walls with simpler repair techniques. The expected behaviour is focussed on big changes in stiffness, more evident than in previously tested RC beams found in the literature.
Decision making on the reinstatement of the Christchurch sewer system after the Canterbury (New Zealand) earthquake sequence in 2010–2011 relied strongly on damage data, in particular closed circuit television (CCTV). This paper documents that process and considers how data can influence decision making. Data are analyzed on 33,000 pipes and 13,000 repairs and renewals. The primary findings are that (1) there should be a threshold of damage per pipe set to make efficient use of CCTV; (2) for those who are estimating potential damage, care must be taken in direct use of repair data without an understanding of the actual damage modes; and (3) a strong correlation was found between the ratio of faults to repairs per pipe and the estimated peak ground velocity. Taken together, the results provide evidence of the extra benefit that damage data can provide over repair data for wastewater networks and may help guide others in the development of appropriate strategies for data collection and wastewater pipe decisions after disasters.
One of the workers helping to repair the damage to the James Hight Library, organising the books.
One of the workers helping to repair the damage to the James Hight Library, organising the books.
A Christchurch support group says home owners will be alarmed at the blowout in earthquake repair costs.
After calls for an inquiry into Christchurch home repairs, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee joins Checkpoint.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Repairing the damaged footpath at the Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Procope Coffee House on Victoria Street, under repair from earthquake damage".
One of the workers helping to repair the damage to the James Hight Library, organising the books.
Ongoing repair and deconstruction work on Victoria Street. A demolition site has been turned to a carpark.
The word "repairs" painted on the side of a building has a large crack running through it.
(It was already opened up mid-way through a repair. But it wasn't on the floor!)
The Earthquake Commission could have a big job on its hands fixing quake damaged Christchurch homes for a second time.
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A protest is underway outside insurance company Vero's Christchurch's office, with building owners dismayed to be still fighting for earthquake repairs 10 years on. The protest was organised by the owners of an 11 unit apartment block in New Brighton, who says Vero is purposefully delaying progress to wear them down. RNZ's reporter Rachel Graham is at the protest and spoke to Meriana Johnsen
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 looking south from Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. The photograph shows a homemade figure of Humpty Dumpty with a bandaged head sitting on a fence on top of a retaining wall awaiting repair. Contractor involved in repair work The retaining walls above and below Cunningham Terrace wer...
Repair work being done to the Victoria Clock Tower on the corner of Montreal Street and Victoria Street.
Repair work being done to the Victoria Clock Tower on the corner of Montreal Street and Victoria Street.
Workers repairing power lines on Settlers Crescent in Ferrymead. Liquefaction silt can be seen on the road surface.
Repair work on Christchurch's iconic Town Hall, badly damaged in the earthquakes, has nearly hit the halfway mark.
Repair work being done to the Victoria Clock Tower on the corner of Montreal Street and Victoria Street.
People can walk over Christchurch's Bridge of Remembrance once again, after nearly seven million dollars in earthquake repairs.