Detail of damage to Beaufort House on Latimer Square. Wooden braces are used to support the walls.
A red-stickered house where the brick walls have crumbled and the house is on a lean.
Damage to a building on Montreal Street where a part of the brick wall has fallen out.
A red-stickered property where most of its wall has crumbled, exposing the inside of the house.
A photograph of Siobhan Murphy's house at 436 Oxford Terrace. The front walls has been covered with plastic sheeting. A bow made out of curtains has been pinned to the plastic where the fireplace juts out from the wall. The photographer comments, "The bow is a memorial to Murphy's living room and her life in the house".
A pdf copy of panel 7 of Guy Frederick's 'The Space Between Words' exhibition. The panel includes text from an interview with Colleen McClure about her experiences of the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. Above this is an image of McClure sitting in front of the 'gratitude wall' in her house.
A digitally manipulated image of furniture and machinery. The photographer comments, "This furniture restoration company got caught in the middle of the Christchurch earthquake and lost a whole wall. After constant exposure to the elements everything now needs a bit of restoration. They are now working in a different part of Christchurch, but their past can still be seen".
A photograph of Siobhan Murphy's house at 436 Oxford Terrace. The front walls has been covered with plastic sheeting. A bow made out of curtains has been pinned to the plastic where the fireplace juts out from the wall. The photographer comments, "The bow is a memorial to Murphy's living room and her life in the house".
The Christchurch Cathedral after loosing its tower and spire after the 6.3 quake hit Christchurch 22 February 2011. The February 22 quake cracked pillars, twisted walls, shattered stained glass, collapsed buttresses, fractured masonry and toppled the tower. The rose window in the west wall collapsed in the June aftershocks. Demolition of the Chr...
A photograph of a woman reading poetry. She is standing in front of the Poetica Urban Poetry wall.
Damage to the Valley Inn. Sections of the walls have collapsed, and large cracks run across the building.
Damage to a building on the corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets. The brick side wall has collapsed.
Damaged building in Christchurch central, steel bracing and scaffolding are used to support the walls on the building.
A section of the brick wall under the bay window of a house has collapsed into the yard.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage following the 7.1 earthquake. Graffiti on wall reads 'Built to last!'
A damaged house where the brick wall has crumbled into the yard, exposing the inside of the house.
This shop lost its side wall when the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Christchurch on 4 September 2010.
A corner shop in Sydenham - a Suburb of Christchurch. Front walls are all missing Twitter | Facebook | My Website |
This shop lost its side wall when the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Christchurch on 4 September 2010.
Recent advances in timber design at the University of Canterbury have led to new structural systems that are appropriate for a wide range of building types, including multi-storey commercial office structures. These buildings are competitive with more traditional construction materials in terms of cost, sustainability and structural performance. This paper provides seismic design recommendations and analytical modelling approaches, appropriate for the seismic design of post-tensioned coupled timber wall systems. The models are based on existing seismic design theory for precast post-tensioned concrete, modified to more accurately account for elastic deformation of the timber wall systems and the influence of the floor system. Experimental test data from a two storey post-tensioned timber building, designed, constructed and tested at the University of Canterbury is used to validate the analytical models.
Workers grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.
Workers grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.
Workers grinding off the peaks left by the gel injected into the cracks in the James Hight Library walls.
Detail of a building where the brick walls have crumbled, exposing the internal fixtures. Seen through the cordon fence.
The ground of The Pump House in Linwood. A pile of brick sits next to the damage brick wall.
Damage to the Knox Church. The walls of the church have collapsed, but the woodwork ceiling is still intact.
Scaffolding surrounding a building. In front is a wall, which has been painted in orange, yellow, and red hues.
View down the side of a damaged residential property, where parts of the wall and building rubble has fallen.
Damage to a building on Montreal Street where a part of the brick wall has fallen onto the footpath.
Damage to a building on Montreal Street where a part of the brick wall has fallen onto the footpath.