International speaker Kit Miyamoto said:
"Compared with other places Christchurch suffered moderate damage. ...
The buildings in Christchurch performed as expected. ....
Liquefaction is common, and the amount of liquefaction is Christchurch
was again moderate."
"Technically speaking every building is repairable; there are no exceptions.
The question is, do we want to repair it, and given the other options is
it feasible?"
"My jaw dropped when I saw what you are taking down in Christchurch. I
couldn't believe it.
To take down 20% of the building in a city centre is drastic, but the
plan here is remove about 50%. That's enormously expensive. It's easy
for me to say these things, but I don't understand what's going on here."
Member of the public
"I've spoken to other engineers about this. Many of them agree. So I
ask, can we keep the big bulldozers at bay for a while, so we can
rethink the process?"
Member of the public
"We need to stop the demolition process. We are creating a financial
disaster in the CBD."
Kit Miyamoto: "I agree 100%."
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This is exactly in line with what Charles Kelly told us months ago.
I reported on that in this forum, and also in my blog on Wednesday 27th
April.
Here: http://johnsveitch.blogspot.com/2011/04/stop-big-machines.html