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Earthquake building assessments vary wildly

Proposed legislation will define an earthquake-prone building as engineers are arriving at wildly conflicting assessments of existing buildings.

Jenny Ruth
Thu, 13 Aug 2015

Proposed legislation will define an earthquake-prone building as one which is less than a third as strong as a new building but engineers are arriving at wildly conflicting assessments of existing buildings.

One startling example of this is what happened with a 20-year old building in Greymouth, a

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Jenny Ruth
Thu, 13 Aug 2015
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