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Located on the corner of Cashel and Madras Streets in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand. It became one of the symbols of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake after 115 people lost their lives when the building collapsed during the disaster; [ 3 ] the deaths made up about 60% of the earthquake's total fatalities.
The PGC Building (also known as the Pyne Gould Corporation building or PGC House) was a five-story postmodern office building in Christchurch, New Zealand. It became infamously associated with the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, with images of the failed structure and stories of trapped survivors having been widely broadcast.
Canterbury Television was an independent television station broadcasting in Canterbury, New Zealand. The name is synonymous with regional television in New Zealand as it was the name of the first regional broadcaster to operate in New Zealand. CTV produced and screened more than twenty hours of locally based programming every week.
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The 1995–1996 eruptions of Ruapehu in the North Island of New Zealand left a 7-metre high dam of tephra, consisting of volcanic ash and rock, around the rim of the crater lake. It was realised that as the lake refilled and rose above the level of its normal outlet, the tephra dam would eventually collapse, causing a large lahar.
The Te Rata Bridge had been designed and built by the New Zealand Army, which disputed claims that the collapse was caused by poor design and construction and argued that the Berrymans were responsible for the collapse. Moodie lost the case in 2008 on nearly all points except a single paragraph of the coroner's report, which the High Court quashed.
Following the Champlain Towers condo collapse of 2021 in Surfside that killed 98 people, Florida condo laws have changed in an effort to prevent a similar tragedy.
Mainzeal Property and Construction Ltd was one of the largest New Zealand property and construction companies [1] until being placed into receivership on 6 February 2013 and then being placed into liquidation on 28 February 2013. [2] According to its website, Mainzeal was involved in delivering $7.5 billion of construction projects across New ...