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The clerical call comes from structural engineers assessments. I have no info this extends to geotech, but with residential apartments noted N/A nonresidential I have my doubts.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Hebe,
Thanks Hebe, that helps a lot.
I note it has those CERA signatures.
The residential apartments on cnr of Peterborough St & Park Tce is N/A Urban Nonresidential. It seems all Heritage buildings are Blue or lower.
It may follow soil types, but I suspect it follows years areas were developmented and their cooresponding building code. That is how most assessments have been done. Essentially clerical classifications from files, & not based on engineering assesments. This has caused ripples in engineering circles.
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I was Green & now find I am Yellow.
Anyone know a map that shows this?
Specifically where is the grey & what variation is likely to this colour coding?
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Campbell didn't do too bad here.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Conflating these two stories amused me, noone else got the joke.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/5875019/Catholics-females-get-fair-crack-at-throne
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/5873594/Cathedral-rebuild-could-cost-50mTo be a City in NZ you need a Cathedral and or 20K people.
The City as we know it has no people and now loses its Cathedral at its heart. And so how is Christchurch still a city at all?
It is a City and now our first Catholic City as through the Basilica we still have a Cathedral and are still a City.
(Maybe the story needs beer?)
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Respect Joe, but I beg to differ.
The Arts Centre visable 1980s strengthening worked. The 2000s super fancy and expensive strengthening worked.
The parts put off and not yet worked on had some failure.Not one building in the world is built to with stand what we went through, a 2G upthrust and a 1.5G side kick.
Visible strengtening is a must, for trust and my own asthetic appeal. A Punk-Gothic look as we engineer NZ-Gothic as it never was in England, but as it must be if it's to be here.
I see it as the colonial crossover with brutalism.
Keep in mind the total failure of our Christchurch Brutalists Warren & Mahony and Peter Bevan architectual demise (along with their lesser works).
Architects are egotists. How painful it must be to see your dreams realised laid low by nature.
This is what can be done if the will is there. All of this was laid waste by the Nazis and rebuilt by the Poles. I can see my hotel room and I drank Żywiec at every bar in the square and down the street towards UW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warsaw_-_Royal_Castle_Square.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bramauw.jpg
Public space too.
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Russell - your first paper has picked up this story.
http://www.starcanterbury.co.nz/news/cathedral-demolition-fear/1150822/
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The word on the wire is that Christchurch Investment is the trade off for allowing massive Chinese Investment in NZ Dairy. Labour & National agree here as they do over the Kaiapoi development.
_Over and above_ would be paying out insurance, repair or replacement value when the building didn't need to be demolished. That it was demolished was a CERA call & not peer reviewed as would be normal practice to get a payout.
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Building for earth quakes is safer and more economic than gambling/insuring against them.
That has to be a real lesson, forget EQ insurance and strengthen buildings.
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That's not the word around the cordon.
The word on the wire is Christchurch is a trade off for Chinese Dairy interests to "invest". This isn't about current buildings or owners or business and certainly not an international insurance payout over and above policy conditions.
It's a rock bottom sale of banrupted vacant land over broken (nonexistant) sewage systems to offshore interests to keep the price of dairy up.
This is coming from building/business owners who want to stay but are being pushed and can't see a net below.