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Ruins of the CTV Building, 24 February 2011. The CTV Building was designed and constructed in about 1986. [1] [4] Christchurch City Council gave building consent in September 1986. [5] Building codes for earthquake design changed frequently in New Zealand following the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake (in 1935, 1965, 1976, 1984 and 1992). [6]
The CTV Building post-earthquake (24 February 2011) The six-story CTV Building [1] located at 249 Madras Street, on the Cashel Street corner (), collapsed in the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake [7] and CTV lost transmission. CTV's main studios were destroyed and the building's lift cavity, the main part of the structure left upright ...
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The six-storey Canterbury Television (CTV) building collapsed in the earthquake, leaving only its lift shaft standing, which caught fire. 115 people died in the building, which housed a TV station, a medical clinic and an English language school. [71]
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Following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake and 2011 Christchurch earthquake, Priestley was an expert witness before the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Building Failure Caused by the Canterbury Earthquakes, and chaired a panel that investigated the collapse of the CTV Building and PGC Building, and damage to the Hotel Grand Chancellor and ...
CTV Building was the headquarters of Canterbury Television in Christchurch, New Zealand. CTV Building may also refer to one of the following buildings associated with the CTV Television Network in Canada: 299 Queen Street West in downtown Toronto; 9 Channel Nine Court in the Scarborough district of Toronto; 750 Burrard Street in Vancouver
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake had a large impact on the school: it caused extensive damage to the current site; [8] the old Cranmer Centre site was damaged so badly that it was later demolished – and the school's principal at the time, Prue Taylor, lost her husband Brian in the CTV Building collapse. [9]