A photograph of an excavator demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "TUC demolition".
A photograph of an excavator demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "TUC demolition".
Sandbags laid along the banks of the Avon River, prior to building up the banks with gravel.
A photograph of earthquake damage to 141-149 Manchester Street. Rubble from the building covers the footpath.
A photograph of a partially-demolished building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "St Asaph Street".
A photograph of an excavator demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "TUC demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Louis Vuitton Building (in the process of being demolished) Gloucester Street".
A photograph of an excavator demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "TUC demolition".
A photograph of an excavator demolishing a building on Colombo Street, near the corner of Armagh Street.
A photograph of an excavator clearing the rubble from the demolished building at 270 St Asaph Street.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing a building. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "TUC demolition".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The site of the PGC building, where 18 people died".
Sandbags laid along the banks of the Avon River, prior to building up the banks with gravel.
A photograph of a building being demolished. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The demolition of the Bismarck Building at 140 Lichfield Street".
Safety fences enclosing a vacant site on Williams Street in Kaiapoi where a building has been demolished.
A large pile of rubble from a demolished building. In the foreground is a garden seating area.
Cars parked on the lawn beside the NZi3 building. The photographer comments, "Lawns became parking spaces".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Badly damaged buildings viewed from yard behind 746 - 750 Colombo Street".
Damage to an apartment complex on Durham Street. The building has collapsed on the ground floor level.
Damage to an apartment complex on Durham Street. The building has collapsed on the ground floor level.
Same view as a previous shot - taken in January 2011 after the block of buildings was demolished.
The Christchurch region of New Zealand experienced a series of major earthquakes and aftershocks between September 2010 and June 2011 which caused severe damage to the city’s infrastructure. The performance of tilt-up precast concrete buildings was investigated and initial observations are presented here. In general, tilt-up buildings performed well during all three major earthquakes, with mostly only minor, repairable damage occurring. For the in-plane loading direction, both loadbearing and cladding panels behaved exceptionally well, with no significant damage or failure observed in panels and their connections. A limited number of connection failures occurred due to large out-of-plane panel inertia forces. In several buildings, the connections between the panel and the internal structural frame appeared to be the weakest link, lacking in both strength and ductility. This weakness in the out-of-plane load path should be prevented in future designs.
A photograph of damage to St John's Church, Lyttelton.
A photograph of 96 Gloucester Street.
An aerial photograph of Mona Vale.
A photograph of 96 Gloucester Street.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Avonside Church".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Catholic Convent, Barbadoes Street".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Avonside Church".