Ruth Gardner's Blog 01/08/2012: Blueprint Brain-teasers
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 1 August 2012 entitled, "Blueprint Brain-teasers".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 1 August 2012 entitled, "Blueprint Brain-teasers".
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 12 March 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 20 February 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 4 May 2012
Transcript of Jan Dobson's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 19 March 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 14 December 2012 entitled, "Sustainable Smoothies".
Transcript of Lou's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
The University of Canterbury has initialized a research program focusing on the seismic sustainability of structures. As part of this program, the relative seismic sustainability of various structures will be assessed to identify those with the highest sustainability for the Christchurch rebuild and general use in New Zealand. This preliminary case study assesses one reinforced concrete (RC) frame structure and one RC wall structure. The scenario loss is evaluated for two earthquake records considering direct losses only in order to explain and illustrate the methodology.
A story submitted by Trent Hiles to the QuakeStories website.
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 21 November 2012
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 2 November 2012
A video of the second part of a keynote address by Dr. Colin G Harrison from IBM Smarter Cities, USA, at the 2012 Seismics and the City forum. The talk is about the opportunity that post-quake Christchurch has to reinvent and rebrand itself as a smart, green, energy-efficient city through clever IT strategies, flexible infrastructure, and sustainable values.
A video of the first part of a keynote address by Dr. Colin G Harrison from IBM Smarter Cities, USA, at the 2012 Seismics and the City forum. The talk is about the opportunity that post-quake Christchurch has to reinvent and rebrand itself as a smart, green, energy-efficient city through clever IT strategies, flexible infrastructure, and sustainable values.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 26 March 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
Summary of oral history interview with Kath Graham about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Carol Hides about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 16 January 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 20 February 2012 entitled, "Peterborough Plot".
A preliminary case study assessing the seismic sustainability of two reinforced concrete structures, a frame structure and a wall structure, was conducted to determine which structural system is more seismically sustainable. The two structures were designed to the same standards and were assumed to be located in Christchurch, New Zealand. A component-based probabilistic seismic loss assessment, considering direct losses only, was conducted for two ground motion records, regarded to approximately represent a 1 in 500 year earthquake event and a 1 in 2500 year earthquake event, respectively. It is shown that the wall structure results in lower direct losses than the frame structure in the less severe ground motion scenario. However, in the more severe ground motion scenario, the frame structure results in lower direct losses. Hence, this study demonstrates that which structural system has the lower direct losses depends on the ground motion intensity level.
A photograph of a barbeque brunch and public talk opposite the former Christchurch City Council offices on Tuam Street. The design team from Sustainable Habitat Challenge discussed the build of a sub-consent, off-grid office for Life in Vacant Spaces Trust. The event was part of FESTA 2012.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 8 March 2012 entitled, "Wet Weather Woes".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 17 February 2012 entitled, "Approaching Anniversary".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 20 January 2012 entitled, "This week I've been....".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 June 2012 entitled, "Sobering Sunday Stroll".
Summary of oral history interview with Peggy Kelly about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 30 July 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
Transcript of Bethan Yates's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
The topic of ‘resilience’ thinking seems of late to have superseded that of ‘sustainability’ thinking. Sustainability means simply that which sustains and lasts but has taken on many different subtle nuances over the last 20 years since it came into common parlance with the Bruntland Report of 1987, which sought to clarify the definition. However, resilience ‘speak’ has become hot property now, especially highlighted since Christchurch experienced a natural disaster in the form of several large earthquakes from Sep 2010 until most recently in December 2011. Many people comment on how resilient people have been, how resilient the city has been, so it seems timely to investigate what resilience actually means and importantly, resilient to what and of what? (Lorenz, 2010). This essay will look at the concept of systems and resilience, definitions and theories will be explored generally and then these concepts will be more closely defined within the context of a particular system, that of Somerfield School located in the western suburbs of Christchurch.
Summary of oral history interview with Phillippa Jacobs about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.