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dc.title: Terra Probe
dc.description: Workers operate a drilling rig inside a Terra Probe truck, which has been raised on jacks to make it stable. The photographer comments, "Another completely different company testing what is below the surface to determine what type of foundations new houses will need. This is in one the blue/green area of earthquake shaken Christchurch. Strangely this is 3 metres away from where the other testing was done".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 4:32am 8th May 2012
Tags: drilling, testing, probe, soil, liquefaction, geotechnical, Opus, truck, EQC, 22 February 2011

dc.title: The Samples
dc.description: A box containing drilling cores from soil sampling. The photographer comments, "These are the samples from drilling near my home. As you can see they are not so much samples as sand piles. The drill in a nearby street went down 20m and it was sand all the way. This is the box of samples from the ground level to 4.6m deep".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 9:18pm 17th April 2012
Tags: 22 February 2011, liquefaction, silt, sand, EQC, geotechnical, investigation, TC3, blue green land, drilling, sample, sampling, soil, check, checking, box

dc.title: Fairfax Video, October 2010 (12)
dc.description: Part seven of a video series about the first stage of the Tonkin & Taylor Geotechnical Land Damage Assessment and Reinstatement Report. The report was prepared for the Earthquake Commission after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Date: 8:15am 22nd October 2010
Tags: geotechnical, land damage, land damage assessment, report, Earthquake Commission, EQC, Media, Communications and Journalism

dc.title: You Know the Drill
dc.description: Workers operate a drilling rig, sampling soil as part of EQC's geotechnical investigation of TC3 land. The photographer comments, "The work of getting 'soil' samples from all the areas marked as green/blue zones in Christchurch. These areas may be susceptible to liquefaction if a major earthquake occurs. The soil samples were a failure as all they found was sand".
Creator(s): Steven Taylor
Date: 9:21pm 17th April 2012
Tags: 22 February 2011, liquefaction, silt, sand, EQC, geotechnical, investigation, TC3, blue green land, pro-drill, worksite, drilling, sample, sampling, soil, sign, check, checking

dc.title: New Zealand Geomechanics News Magazine June 2013 Article - Retaining Walls and Ground Improvements in Christchurch
dc.description: A magazine article which outlines the observations of engineers working on SCIRT retaining wall and ground improvement projects.
Creator(s): P Aynsley, I Froggatt, Louise Kendal Riches, M Lazzaro
Date: 12:00pm 1st June 2013
Tags: retaining wall, asset assessment, design, geotechnical

dc.title: Fairfax Video, October 2010 (8)
dc.description: Part three of a video series about the first stage of the Tonkin & Taylor Geotechnical Land Damage Assessment and Reinstatement Report. The report was prepared for the Earthquake Commission after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Date: 5:40am 22nd October 2010
Tags: geotechnical, land damage, land damage assessment, report, Earthquake Commission, EQC, Media, Communications and Journalism

dc.title: Observed Earthquake Damage to Christchurch City Council-Owned Retaining Walls and the Repair Solutions Developed
dc.description: A paper which outlines the observed damage to Christchurch City Council-owned retaining walls and the repair solutions developed.
Creator(s): Louise Kendal Riches
Date: 1:00pm 1st November 2015
Tags: retaining wall, asset assessment, design, geotechnical

dc.title: Fairfax Video, October 2010 (9)
dc.description: Part four of a video series about the first stage of the Tonkin & Taylor Geotechnical Land Damage Assessment and Reinstatement Report. The report was prepared for the Earthquake Commission after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Date: 5:59am 22nd October 2010
Tags: geotechnical, land damage, land damage assessment, report, Earthquake Commission, EQC, Media, Communications and Journalism

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Empowered Christchurch Social Media Campaigns: Seismic Risk

dc.description

A poster created by Empowered Christchurch to advertise their submission to the CERA Draft Transition Recovery Plan on social media.

The poster reads, "Submission, CERA Draft Transition Recovery Plan. Seismic Risk. One thing we can learn from the past is that seismic risk in Canterbury has been underestimated before the earthquakes struck. This is confirmed in a report for EQC in 1991 (paper 2005). It is also the conclusion of the Royal Commission in the CTV report. A number of recommendations have been made but not followed. For example, neither the AS/NZS 1170.5 standard nor the New Zealand Geotechnical Society guidelines have been updated. Yet another recovery instrument is the Earthquake Prone Building Act, which is still to be passed by Parliament. As the emergency response part of the recovery is now behind us, we need to ensure sustainability for what lies ahead. We need a city that is driven by the people that live in it, and enabled by a bureaucracy that accepts and mitigates risks, rather than transferring them to the most vulnerable residents."

Tags

Empowered Christchurch, CERA, Draft Transition Recovery Plan, Royal Commission, CTV, New Zealand Geotechnical Society, Earthquake Prone Building Act, Government and Politics

dc.title: Fairfax Video, October 2010 (11)
dc.description: Part six of a video series about the first stage of the Tonkin & Taylor Geotechnical Land Damage Assessment and Reinstatement Report. The report was prepared for the Earthquake Commission after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Date: 7:59am 22nd October 2010
Tags: geotechnical, land damage, land damage assessment, report, Earthquake Commission, EQC, Media, Communications and Journalism

dc.title: Fairfax Video, October 2010 (7)
dc.description: Part two of a video series about the first stage of the Tonkin & Taylor Geotechnical Land Damage Assessment and Reinstatement Report. The report was prepared for the Earthquake Commission after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Date: 5:03am 22nd October 2010
Tags: geotechnical, land damage, land damage assessment, report, Earthquake Commission, EQC, Media, Communications and Journalism

dc.title: Fairfax Video, October 2010 (10)
dc.description: Part five of a video series about the first stage of the Tonkin & Taylor Geotechnical Land Damage Assessment and Reinstatement Report. The report was prepared for the Earthquake Commission after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Date: 7:18am 22nd October 2010
Tags: geotechnical, land damage, land damage assessment, report, Earthquake Commission, EQC, Media, Communications and Journalism

dc.title: Repairing Christchurch City Council Owned Retaining Walls Damaged by the Christchurch and Canterbury Earthquakes
dc.description: A paper which outlines SCIRT's approach to asset assessment, design and repair of damaged retaining walls, and presents a case study of a retaining wall rebuild, on Cunningham Terrace, Lyttelton.
Creator(s): Louise Kendal Riches
Date: 1:00pm 22nd February 2015
Tags: retaining wall, asset assessment, design, geotechnical

dc.title: Fairfax Video, October 2010 (6)
dc.description: Part one of a video series about the first stage of the Tonkin & Taylor Geotechnical Land Damage Assessment and Reinstatement Report. The report was prepared for the Earthquake Commission after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.
Date: 4:23am 22nd October 2010
Tags: Tonkin & Taylor, geotechnical, land damage, land damage assessment, report, Earthquake Commission, EQC, Media, Communications and Journalism

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