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- Photographs of 811-813 Colombo Street
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- Photographs of 811-813 Colombo Street, commissioned by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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- Photographs of 21 Hurley Street
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- Photographs of 21 Hurley Street, commissioned by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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- Photographs of LUXCITY: Halo
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- Photographs of Halo, a temporary installation which was created by students from AUT. Halo was part of LUXCITY - a city of lights that existed for one night on Saturday 20 October 2012. LUXCITY was the main event of FESTA 2012.
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- Positive Influence: Training Advisory Group
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SCIRT, Civil Contractors New Zealand and Connexis drove the creation of an industry-wide Training Advisory Group.
In early 2013, SCIRT's Training Team established a SCIRT-wide Training Forum Group.
It was made up of a wide range of skilled operational leaders, who, as Mason Tolerton, SCIRT's training and peak performance manager, described, knew "what good looks like, in both infrastructure work and how to train a crew to do it".
The group proved invaluable to the ongoing development and improvement of qualifications suited to the civil infrastructure industry. As qualifications were developed, these experts took them to workers on-site, to quickly review and provide feedback to Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) on their practicality and usefulness. The forum also gave SCIRT trainers feedback about risks and needs for on-job training and short courses.
The Training Forum Group ceased in 2015, as people moved on to other companies and roles and the SCIRT training programme was intentionally wound down.
Through the success of this group, and SCIRT's involvement in the development of a civil trade certification (see story about Civil Trade Certification), the power and benefits of industry-wide advisory group involvement in qualification development were highlighted.
SCIRT was uniquely placed to speed up and improve qualification creation, as it spoke with a shared voice about the needs of the industry.
As SCIRT's training programme wound down, SCIRT's Training Team wasn't able to provide as much support to Connexis and other ITOs.
Tolerton realised that when SCIRT came to an end, there would be no organisation to provide support or input from a nationwide, industry-wide perspective to the wide range of organisations interested in delivering infrastructure or safety training in New Zealand.
In mid-2016, Tolerton and the chairman and president of Civil Contractors New Zealand discussed the need to hold a meeting with a range of industry representatives.
In July 2016, Tolerton and SCIRT executive general manager Ian Campbell, along with representatives of medium-sized civil contracting businesses, the president and chief executive of Civil Contractors New Zealand and the CEO of Connexis, held a meeting to discuss the elements of a training advisory group, and create an outline.
Civil Contractors New Zealand and Connexis took this proposal to their annual national body meeting. At that meeting, there was endorsement of the need to have an industry-wide Training Advisory Group that could speak on behalf of the civil construction industry to ITOs (and other organisations with a desire to improve and benefit industry-wide training).
The Training Advisory Group would aim to benefit workers in the civil infrastructure industry by improving training, through ensuring consistency of approach, via industry alignment and collaboration. The group would have a mix of safety specialists, learning and development and training professionals, operational practitioners, and people with influence within civil contracting companies (senior operations managers or similar). If information or advice were needed by training organisations about the latest methods, and it was not immediately available within the training group, those people would be able to get the information.
Additional information about the Training Advisory Group can be obtained by contacting Civil Contractors New Zealand.
Lessons learnt:
- Involve the right people: Tertiary-qualified people often aren't the best individuals to provide feedback on qualification development because they're removed from what is happening on-site ("what good looks like"), whereas skilled site supervisors and crew leaders are.
- Get support from the top: SCIRT's Training Forum Group lost its effectiveness when long-serving operational people left for other roles. Having the support of industry leaders and managers who understand and believe in the long-term benefits of training can help to mitigate the loss of team members.
- Focus on training, not assessment: It is easy to default to assessment rather than training. Industry is in the best position to advocate for this.
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- Homage to the Lost Spaces
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Homage to the Lost Spaces'. The project description reads, "Entitled Homage to the Lost Spaces (Government Life Building Studios), Hewson's series of photographic installations references the artistic community of pre-earthquake Christchurch who lost studios and seeks to draw attention to and pay final respects to the beauty contributed by many of the city's old buildings. Cranmer Courts was critically damaged during the February 22nd quake; the subsequent emergency repair work to secure the building left large areas, including window and door frames, boarded up with plywood. These void spaces were used as the 'canvas' for Hewson's installations, resulting in the images being neatly framed by the damaged stonework".
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- Jelly in Sumner
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- Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Jelly in Sumner'. The project description reads, "Stencil with a humorous comment on the state of the land in Christchurch".
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- Jinny Reynolds's Photographs September 2010
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- Photographs taken by Jinny Reynolds from the Northern Outlook in September 2010.
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- Photographs of 820 Colombo Street
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- Photographs of 820 Colombo Street, commissioned by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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- Press Infographics November 2011
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- Infographics created by The Press in November 2011.
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- Lawrence Smith's Photographs February 2011
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- Photographs taken by Lawrence Smith from The Press in February 2011.
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- Photographs of the Coachman Inn, 144 Gloucester Street
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- Photographs of the Coachman Inn, 144 Gloucester Street, commissioned by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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- School Visits
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School visits were an important communications tool SCIRT used to promote to children how to keep safe around its work sites and to inform local people about its work.
During its six-year work programme SCIRT's communications team conducted 170 school visits in Christchurch.
Talking to pupils, students and teachers about how to keep safe when there were SCIRT work sites in their neighbourhood was a key objective of the visits, and part of SCIRT's commitment to proactive, open, clear and timely communications with the Christchurch community.
Like other communications channels, school visits helped to prepare neighbourhoods for the intensity and disruption of some of SCIRT's projects and to build goodwill and patience with those works.
Where SCIRT projects were close to schools, SCIRT asked the school whether it would like a visit from the SCIRT project team to talk about the work it was doing.
The key objectives of school visits were:
- To talk about what SCIRT was and why it needed to do the work it was doing.
- To talk to pupils and students about how to keep safe around worksites in their neighbourhood.
It was considered that the visits, targeted primarily at children, might also help to inform adults like the teachers and the children's parents.
Safety messages were the main part of the school sessions where SCIRT communications team members explained the risks around work sites, why workers had to wear special protective gear on the work site and the reasons for all the cones and signs.
Keeping the explanations clear, simple and interesting for young people was important.
SCIRT developed a number of resources to engage school children in the conversations about safety and to make the visit for children fun. These included several safety-related pictures to colour in, magnets, stickers, pens and miniature cones.
SCIRT communications staff prepared a Schools Engagement Plan for each school visit which included which techniques and activities the visit would use to suit the age of the pupils. School visits ranged from 30 minutes and longer with older pupils to short 10 minute sessions for younger pupils and in several cases also site visits.
A feedback form for teachers was used to evaluate how SCIRT messages were received, if they were well understood, and which activities helped best to engage children and get the messages across.
SCIRT found that school visits proved to be an effective and much-appreciated communications tool to build understanding and tolerance of its work programme.
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- Laura Melville's Photographs February 2011
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- Photographs taken by Laura Melville from the Northern Outlook in February 2011.
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- Manawatu Standard
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- Manawatu Standard
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- Sonja Farmer's WEMO Photographs
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- Photographs taken by Sonka Farmer, a volunteer at the Wellington Emergency Management Office, during the emergency response to the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
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- Photographs of 130 Hereford Street
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- Photographs of 130 Hereford Street, commissioned by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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- Photographs of 130 Manchester Street
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- Photographs of 130 Manchester Street, commissioned by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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- The Space Between Words - Exhibition Panels
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- A collection of panels from Guy Frederick's 'The Space Between Words' exhibition.
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- Songs for Christchurch Launch
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Material relating to a Transitional Cities project, titled 'Songs for Christchurch Launch'. The project description reads:
Songs for Christchurch is a unique music-driven fundraising effort. It is a compilation album consisting of songs donated by 21 local and global artists. This musical effort towards the city's recovery was made possible through donations and all proceeds from the album go towards community projects that are focused on reconstituting Christchurch. The project had three goals: raising as much money as possible for the projects in Christchurch, promoting Christchurch and New Zealand artists to overseas audiences, and putting on a free live concert in Christchurch's CBD.
AHoriBuzz, The Nudge, Electric Wire Hustle Sound System, Jessie James and the Outlaws, and Delaney Davidson played at the launch gig. Other artists on the album include Imogen Heap, The Eastern, The Unfaithful Ways, ,Tim Finn, Flight of the Conchords, The Black Seeds, Electric Wire Hustle, Greg Johnson, Spartacus R, L.A Mitchell, Jessie James and the Outlaws, The Black Seeds, Fly My Pretties, Dear Frontier, The Nudge, Ladi6, The Yoots, Mara TK, Fat Freddys Drop and Giles McNeill.
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- Photographs of LUXCITY: Sound Cone
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- Photographs of Sound Cone, a temporary installation which was created by students from Unitec in partnership with Fledge. Sound Cone was part of LUXCITY - a city of lights that existed for one night on Saturday 20 October 2012. LUXCITY was the main event of FESTA 2012.