Digital Photograph: Homemade sign on Fence

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 looking south from Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. The foreground of the photograph shows a blue temporary water supply pipe and markings spray painted on the footpath in preparation for repair work. The fence has a home made sign painted with the Fulton Hogan (FH) logo satirized to ...

Digital Photograph: Painting on Retaining Wall, Flying Pig

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 showing a painting of a winged pig flying against a cloud. The painting was executed on a large curved concrete block of a temporary retaining wall in Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. The retaining walls above and below Cunningham Terrace were severely damaged by the 22 February 2011 ...

Digital Photograph: Bottle painted on footpath

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One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012. Taken on the corner of Bridle Path and Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. Photograph shows a painting of a bottle in the style of a cleaning product. The bottle is labelled "Brain Wash". The retaining walls above and below Cunningham Terrace were severely damaged by the 22 February 201...

Digital Photograph: Painting on Retaining Wall, Rome Burning

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One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 showing a painting representing Nero fiddling while Rome burnt. The painting was executed on a large curved concrete block of a temporary retaining wall in Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. Artist The retaining walls above and below Cunningham Terrace were severely damaged by the 22 Feb...

Photograph: ChristChurch Cathedral Bells

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Colour photograph of the ChristChurch Cathedral bells in the Tuning Shop at Taylor's Bell Foundry, Loughborough, United Kingdom, during an open afternoon on Sunday 30 September 2012.

Digital Photograph: Painting on Retaining Wall, The Gravy Train

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One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 showing a painting of a steam train with seven visible carriages or wagons. A caption painted below the train reads "The Gravy Train" The painting was executed in blue on large curved concrete blocks of a temporary retaining wall in Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. The retaining walls...

Digital Photograph: Virgil quote on sign on fence

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One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 looking south from Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. The photograph shows a homemade sign with the text "How Happy are Those Whose Walls Already Rise. Virgil" . The sign is attached to a temporary safety fence on top of a retaining wall awaiting repair. Quoted author The retaining wall...

Digital Photograph: Painting on Retaining Wall, Word Puzzle

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One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 showing a painting of a red circle on a blue background. Painted on the right side of circle is a yellow crescent shaped representation of "the man in the moon". Painted in black is a word puzzle of 6 lines starting with "SCIRT" and changing one letter each line to finish with "STAR...

Digital Photograph: Painting on Retaining Wall, "Sailing Away?"

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One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 showing a painting silhouette of a yacht. A caption painted associated with the image reads "Sailing away? Yea right... Falling Away" The painting was executed in blue and black on a large curved concrete block of a temporary retaining wall in Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. The res...

Digital Photograph: Humpty Dumpty artwork on fence

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 28 April 2012 looking south from Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton. The photograph shows a homemade figure of Humpty Dumpty with a bandaged head sitting on a fence on top of a retaining wall awaiting repair. Contractor involved in repair work The retaining walls above and below Cunningham Terrace wer...

Digital Photograph: Site of the Harbourlight Theatre, London Street, Lytte…

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 14 September 2012 showing the site of the Harbourlight Theatre on London Street. The retaining wall at the rear of the site collapsed and part of the adjoining land eroded. Also visible in the photograph are the side walls of the Bank of New Zealand and the former Westpac Branch, now Himalaya Desi...

Digital Photograph: Partially Demolished Shops, corner of London and Oxfor…

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One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 14 September 2012 showing a block of partially demolished shops on the corner of London and Oxford Streets. The businesses (from left to right) are Bells Pharmacy, Leslie's Bookshop and Lyttelton Sea Foods. The site of The Empire Hotel is visible to the right of the photograph. By the time this p...

Lifelines - Lessons from Natural Hazards in Canterbury

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) and the Canterbury Lifeline Utilities Group have collaborated to assemble documented infra- structure-related learnings from the recent Canterbury earthquakes and other natural hazard events over the last 15 years (i.e. since publication of Risks and Realities). The project was led by the Centre for Advanced Engineering (CAE) and was undertaken to promote knowledge sharing by facilitating access to diverse documents on natural hazard learnings, a matter of ongoing relevance and very considerable current interest.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2369

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The Volunteer Canterbury house located on Barbadoes Street.

Nisbet, Alistair, 1958- :'CHCH Show Homes for the tsunami conscious...'. 1…

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Shows various sized boats for the 'tsunami-conscious' as show homes in Christchurch. Context: There is anxiety about the potential for a local source tsunami but the Christchurch City Council says on its website that there will be no time to issue an official warning for a local source tsunami. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Second Sight.

Other, National Library of New Zealand

A blog by Christchurch journalist Philip Matthews. Includes posts about the Christchurch earthquake.

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2012 photograph 123

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "University of Canterbury".

Commission hears crucial evidence was destroyed

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission has heard that evidence crucial to working out what caused the collapse of the Canterbury Television Building, was destroyed by the firm which oversaw its design.

Kirkwood Village University of Canterbury Photograph 3

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of Kirkwood Village, a cluster of temporary classrooms and offices constructed at the University of Canterbury campus following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Kirkwood Village University of Canterbury Photograph 5

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A photograph of Kirkwood Village, a cluster of temporary classrooms and offices constructed at the University of Canterbury campus following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Kirkwood Village University of Canterbury Photograph 2

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A photograph of Kirkwood Village, a cluster of temporary classrooms and offices constructed at the University of Canterbury campus following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Kirkwood Village University of Canterbury Photograph 1

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A photograph of Kirkwood Village, a cluster of temporary classrooms and offices constructed at the University of Canterbury campus following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (5)

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The winners parade at the Canterbury A&P Show.

CERA says about 100 CBD buildings still to be demolished

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's chief executive, Roger Sutton.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (6)

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The winners parade at the Canterbury A&P Show.

Council questioned at Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission

Audio, Radio New Zealand

A man whose wife was killed when the CTV building collapsed says the council's inspections after the September quake were in a mess and signage put on some buildings sent the wrong message that they were safe to occupy.

Jobs on the line at Canterbury University

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The University of Canterbury has put one-hundred-and-fifty jobs on the line as it tries to recover from the Christchurch earthquakes.

Identifying Canterbury Rebuild Project KPIs - Baseline Report

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A report created by BRANZ, the University of Auckland and Constructing Excellence New Zealand which was commissioned by the Productivity Partnership. It examines the use of KPIs by a number of rebuild organisations.

Resourcing the Canterbury Rebuild: Issues and Outlook

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

This report is the output of a longitudinal study that was established between the University of Auckland and Resilient Organisations, in conjunction with the Building Research Association of New Zealand (BRANZ), to evaluate the ongoing resource availability and capacity for post-earthquake reconstruction in Christchurch.

Kirkwood Village University of Canterbury Photograph 4

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of one of the "pods" of temporary classrooms and offices at Kirkwood Village. The pods were constructed at the University of Canterbury campus following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.