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Category Archives: Engineering
Earthquake Royal Commission – eight more technical reports on representative city buildings
As with yesterday’s post, these documents are the supporting technical information underpinning the Royal Commission’s examination of the buildings named (click on the building name to go to the report): Christchurch Women’s Hospital Christchurch Town Hall – 100 Kilmore Street … Continue reading
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Earthquake Royal Commission – technical reports on representative city buildings
From the Royal Commission’s website: The Royal Commission’s Terms of Reference require the examination of and reporting on a representative sample of buildings. The majority of these are reported on in Volume 2 of the Royal Commission’s Final Report. The … Continue reading
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Press newspaper’s expose of CTV builder’s fraudulent qualifications
For those of you living outside of Christchurch you may have missed the Press newspaper’s lead story this morning. Headed A life of lies it documents how William Anthony Fisher, construction manager for the company that built the CTV building, … Continue reading
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Earthquake Royal Commission – transcript of the Roles and Responsibilities hearing held on 11 September 2012
The Royal Commission has published the transcript of the first day of the Roles and Responsibilities hearing held on the 11th of September. The transcript can be downloaded from here. The first submitter to be heard was John Scarry, a … Continue reading
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Earthquake Royal Commission–Building Management after earthquakes
The Royal Commission published a discussion paper on Building Management after Earthquakes and called for submissions. The summary of the discussion paper read: This discussion paper focuses on how buildings were managed in Christchurch after the September 2010 earthquake. It … Continue reading
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Earthquake Royal Commission–Engineering training and education and the organisation of the profession.
The Royal Commission has published a number of submissions received on engineering training and education, and the organisation of the engineering profession. A link to the earlier discussion paper is here. Submissions can be found by going to the document … Continue reading
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Earthquake Royal Commission – Discussion Paper: Roles and Responsibilities
The Royal Commission has published a discussion paper Roles and Responsibilities. The Royal Commission is seeking contributions on any or all of the contents of the paper (here). The following is from the introduction to the paper: This paper presents … Continue reading
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Earthquake Royal Commission – Building Management After Earthquakes
The Royal Commission have added a discussion paper Building Management After Earthquakes to their on-line library here. The discussion paper poses a series of questions and people may respond to the questions directly, respond to some but not others, or generally … Continue reading
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Advice for Canterbury building owners: multi unit residential buildings
The Department of Building and Housing (DBH) have released a document for owners of multi unit residential buildings (here). The purpose of the document: Advice for Canterbury building owners: Assessing the seismic performance of non-residential and multi unit residential buildings in … Continue reading
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Earthquake Engineering Bulletins NZSEE
The New Zealand S0ciety of Earthquake Engineers (NZSEE) have made available to the public copies of their Bulletins 43/4 for Dec 2010 (Darfield earthquake) and 44/4 for Dec 2011 (Lyttelton earthquake). NZSEE is providing free access to download individual papers … Continue reading
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