The company hired by the Government to carry out earthquake repairs in Canterbury is refusing to install insulation at the same time as it replaces old cladding on houses.
The collapsed cliff at Redcliffs. In the foreground, a house has loosened roof tiles. The photographer comments, "The roof tiles were displaced during the February quake".
The collapsed cliff at Redcliffs. In the foreground, a house has loosened roof tiles. The photographer comments, "The roof tiles were displaced during the February quake".
The collapsed cliff at Redcliffs. In the foreground, a house has loosened roof tiles. The photographer comments, "The roof tiles were displaced during the February quake".
A house perched on the edge of the cliff above Sumner. Below, large bolts have been inserted into the cliff face above a cave entrance to strengthen it.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street looking south".
A view down Gloucester Street. The NewsTalkZB building can be partially seen on the left, and the Manchester Securities House in the middle is being demolished.
A hand-made sign painted on the base of a banana box sits on the fence of a house on Kerrs Road. The sign reads, "Silt removal - help please".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Manchester Street - where the Civic centre was".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking east from Manchester Street. Worcester Street on the right".
The remains of several collapsed buildings on Oxford Street in Lyttelton. The sites formerly housed the Lyttelton Lounge cafe, the Opportunity Shop and NZ Souvenir.
A photograph of building rubble at 181 Peterborough Street. A 'danger' sign can be seen on the house, as well a red sticker and notice of power removal.
A worker stands on a ladder to disconnect a gas supply from the side of a house in Richmond. The photographer comments, "Removing a gas water heater".
Scaffolding in front of the damaged building that housed Satchmo Hairdressing on Victoria Street. The street has been cordoned off with Police and Army personnel guarding the entrace.
In 1907, a former public house on the corner of Durham and Battersea Street, Sydenham, was opened as the first women’s maternity hospital in Christchurch. Founded by the Right Honorable Richa…
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team standing in front of the earthquake-damaged Avonmore House on Hereford Street. Sections of the walls have crumbled, spilling bricks and masonry onto the footpath and street below. Many of the windows have warped, breaking the glass. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the columns. A red sticker taped to the door indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team standing in front of the earthquake-damaged Avonmore House on Hereford Street. Sections of the walls have crumbled, spilling bricks and masonry onto the footpath and street below. Many of the windows have also warped, breaking the glass. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the columns. A red sticker taped to the door indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Avonmore House on the corner of Hereford Street and Latimer Square. Large cracks have formed in the building, causing sections of the masonry to crumble. The windows on the Hereford Street side of the building have bent out of shape and many of the glass panes have shattered. USAR codes have been spray painted on the column next to the door. In the distance wire fencing has been placed across the street as a cordon.
Two diggers on top of a pile of rubble inside the partially demolished Ozone Dressing Sheds building. The photographer comments, "The Ozone must have suffered in the February earthquake more than people thought. They were starting to repaint it inside, but it looks like they must have run out of filler".
A Christchurch couple who fled to Auckland after the earthquakes are now assessing damage at their new house, after a tornado tore through their suburb.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christchurch City Gallery, the temporary civil defence HQ". Portacoms have been placed along Worcester Boulevard to house office workers.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A empty section at 498 Avonside Drive. The house that once stood on the section has been demolished".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Office of MP Brendon Burns. The steel girders in the foreground are from the deconstruction of Avonmore House opposite".
Emergency tape reading, "Danger keep out" that has been blocking the garden path of a house on Galbraith Avenue in Avonside. It has come loose.
A house on Avonside Drive showing large cracks in its foundations and siding. A crack is also visible in the earth of the front lawn.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Community House, 141 Hereford Street. Note the pile of gravel ready to be spread prior to demolishing the building".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "University grounds, College House, and Bishop Julius hall of residence, with the new supermarket under construction at centre right".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christchurch City Gallery, the temporary civil defence HQ". Portacoms have been placed along Worcester Boulevard to house office workers.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Grenadier House on Madras Street. The glass windows have shattered and the section of wall between has buckled.
A photograph of a house on Kingsford Street in Horseshoe Lake with ribbon tied across its window. In the foreground is a decorated road cone.