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ord Civil has been involved with GPR

Lequipment for over 18 years and is proud to have developed and introduced the first GPR systems into

Australasia. With our head office located in

Christchurch and a branch in Sydney,

LORD Civil services the Australian, Pacific

Islands, and New Zealand markets. The

company has been heavily involved for

many years in supporting the development

of expertise and practice related to the use

of GPR, ranging from utility location, road

bed studies, to concrete structure

assessment, each of these making a

major contribution post-earthquake.

An award in 2014 of a patent in sub-

surface utility location methods secured

LORD Civil's leadership in this major area

of market need. The technology was taken

up by SCIRT and is also now integrated in

the recent NZ Transport Agency's

Minimum Standard for Zero Harm-Utilities.

Based upon its intellectual property, LORD

Civil developed an associated

competency-assessed training course for

SCIRT in utility location to prescribed

outcome qualities and this remains the

only such course in NZ or Australia.

GPR solutions pioneered by LORD also

include mapping of voids under houses

with concrete slabs, this now being a

major industry in Christchurch as grout

can be directed correctly and quantity

surveyed prior.

An interesting fact is that the maturity of

GPR technology coinciding with the scale

and nature of the seismic events our

community has experienced has provided

the opportunity to apply all facets of GPR

technology in a first world environment. As

with many other facets of the rebuild; what

has been discovered and accomplished

by the use of GPR in Canterbury is world

leading.

How does it work?

Ground Penetrating Radar in layman

terms works in a similar manner to a Fish

Finder; whereby a signal is transmitted into

the target area and the reflected energy is

recorded. Through software

representation of the reflected energy we

can determine a lot about what lies

beneath the surface.

How is it used some

examples:

For the constructor - GPR is used to

scan an area before breaking ground to

Ground

Penetrating

Radar 'GPR'

Be it locating sub surface pipes and cables, assessing concrete

structures, carrying out archaeological investigations, or

performing Geotechnical Analysis, Ground Penetrating Radar

provides something that many other forms of Non-Destructive

Testing cannotsafety and certainty.

ensure the likelihood of hitting a buried

utility is mitigated; we can all appreciate

the difference between hitting a water line

versus the worst case scenario of hitting a

live cable or gas line whilst digging up the

pavement; both have a financial cost but

the latter two may well be deadly as

opposed to an inconvenience.

For the engineer Being able to scan

an area of concrete to confirm the nature

of construction (reinforcing bars being

able to be imaged in 3D), arrangement

and layout of reinforcing, post tension

cables and fixings along with quantity and

quality surveying data.

For the tradesman Being able to

better understand the nature and scope

of a repair task and being able to record

and communicate this to the home owner

and other interested parties.

For the property owner - Peace of

mind; GPR when applied correctly in

terms of the equipment type applied and

the method utilised allows data on sub-

floor voids to be collected reliably and

comprehensively so that decisions are

evidence based.

As with any technology a skilled

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Issue 45

May 2015

ContentsWelcome

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Editor Canterbury Build Magazine

Melinda Collins

Editors note.

Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee,

Anthony Gough and MP Megan Woods discuss

rebuild progress in the city centre, in this issues

Influencers columns on pages 4-5.

Perhaps one of the coolest developments since the industrial revolution is the

human ability to develop, fund and grow technology that protects both human

life and the environment in which we live.

This issue we profile some local projects which meet both briefs and they

stand to change the way we design and build in the future.

Part of the Government's local education renewal scheme, Pegasus Bay

School is designed to achieve a NZ Green Building Council 5 Green Star

Certification, and that's not even the coolest part.

That honour would go to the fact that Pegasus Bay School is New Zealand's

first 'net zero energy' school. While net zero energy doesn't mean zero cost,

what it does mean is that the school produces as much energy as it uses,

thanks to 560m2 of solar electric panels across its roof.

This energy feeds the school's lighting, computers and underfloor heating

system, with excess fed back into the national grid, while solar hot water

systems meet the school's water heating needs.

And the Ministry of Education isn't the only one turning tech into triumph.

We look at Trimble Navigation's new award winning local base and the quake-

safe technology which make it one of the first of its kind in Australasia.

But the technology that sets this building aside from the rest goes beyond the

core structural system, with building tenants and designers collaborating to

install a smart building monitoring system.

Trimble monitoring systems provide real time data on the condition and

behaviour of land or structures, information which enables tenants to make

informed decisions to address potential problems, ensure structural integrity

after seismic events and improve safety decisions.

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area's healthy growth pages 32-33

Cutting-edge facility aligns with

innovative tenant's values pages 38-39

Local school window into the future

of sustainable design pages 34-36

6: Ngai Tahu Property announces

significant central city complex

7: Local investment strong in Health

Precinct

8: Increasing number of women

playing rebuild roles

10: Wages only one part of successful

employment relationships

14: Deadline for managed repair

decision EQC

17: Christchurch 'mirroring' Auckland

would be misguided

22-23: Capturing our #Architectural

#Heritage NZIA

24: To cash settle or not to cash settle

27: How to improve your workplace

safety

30-31: A westerly change for

development in Christchurch

32-33: New Halswell development

reflects area's healthy growth

34-36: Local school window into the

future of sustainable design

37: Bringing in valuable offshore

workers to assist the rebuild

38-39: Cutting-edge facility aligns with

innovative tenant's values

Ngai Tahu Property has announced plans

for central city complex and combining

commercial, residential and Government

tenants on the historic King Edwards

Barracks site, between Cashel, Hereford,

Montreal and Cambridge Terrace, with

work to begin in July 2015 page 6


- The Influencers

I've made a number of visits to Christchurch over

recent months and each time it's pleasing to see the

visible signs of progress being made on the rebuild.

Over the past few months in Christchurch, I've opened

the new tram line, turned the first sod on the $112

million gateway roading project, attended the opening

ceremony and first match of the ICC Cricket World

Cup, as well as opened the new purpose built facilities

for Tait Communications.

The $112 million gateway roading project will expand

the Western Corridor to four lanes and provide much

better links throughout greater Christchurch, which is

critical for the growth of not only Canterbury, but the

South Island.

Last month, the Government also announced another

350 public servants will relocate into a major new

development in central Christchurch.

A new office building will be built on the corner of

Hereford Street and Cambridge Terrace the site of

the former central police station and house staff from

the Ministry of Education, Housing New Zealand and

the Ministry of Health.

This is in addition to the 1100 staff from 13

government agencies that the Government announced

last year would move into three new central city

buildings by the end of 2016.

Further developments will take shape in the central city

over the next few months, as more than 200 buildings

are either underway or have been consented to at a

value of $438 million. Later this month, the city's new

$53 million Bus Interchange is also expected to open.

While I acknowledge there are genuine frustrations

from some people due to ongoing insurance

settlement disputes, the perceived slow progress on

some projects or other issues, overall there is much to

be excited about as the rebuild momentum builds.

The National-led Government is committed to

continuing to support the rebuilding of Christchurch

and to making it an even better place to live, work and

raise a family in.

We need an efficient Lyttelton Port but the public

also need a proper say in what happens in and

around Lyttelton Harbour.

It's very disappointing that the Government is using

Christchurch's emergency legislation to push through the

Port Company's expansion plans.

Environment Canterbury's (ECan) Lyttelton Port Recovery

Plan proposes a major 27 hectare reclamation of land to

extend the container port. This will change the shape of the

coast and potentially affect tidal flows and sedimentation in

the harbour.

The reclamation will require large amounts of rock to be

blasted from nearby cliffs. This will have significant impact

on the landscape and biodiversity values, and create noise

issues for the people living in and using the harbour basin.

The community cannot scale back the 27 hectare size of the

reclamation because the Government's appointed ECan

commissioners have made it a controlled rather than

discretionary activity. This means the Council must agree to

it.

The public only gets a month to make submissions and has

to wade through volumes of technical reports that took the

Council and the Port Company more than six months to

prepare.

The process under the emergency powers means Minister

Brownlee signs it off. There is no opportunity for the public

to challenge the plan in the Environment Court as there is

under the usual Resource Management Act (RMA) plan

process.

Emergency powers have also been used to reduce public

input on the re-opening of the Lyttelton-Sumner Road. The

Council and the New Zealand Transport Agency are

proceeding with the most expensive option with major

blasting of cliffs in a scenic reserve on public conservation

land. This conveniently produces the most rock for the port

reclamation.

It's time for emergency powers to end. The earthquake

emergency is long gone. Normal RMA planning rules should

apply.

The public should be able to influence what happens to

their harbour and nearby public conservation land.

Another tough Canterbury winter can be a daunting

prospect but Cantabrians are a hardy lot and, the

great thing is, there is plenty to look forward to in

Christchurch when we emerge from the colder months.

One of the things I am most looking forward to is the

opening of the new Margaret Mahy Family Playground in

time for the Christmas holidays.

Located between Madras, Manchester, and Armagh

Streets and Oxford Terrace this is much more than your

average playground. In fact, it will be one of the largest in

the world and I think, one of the most exciting.

With familiar themes like the Canterbury Plains and Port

Hills, it is designed to attract the whole family into the

central city to have fun together, socialise, and see what

else is on offer in this fast-developing city.

Not far from the playground, in an area known as the

North Frame, there is exciting potential for a new

community garden. Earlier this year there were

workshops about the possibilities of a garden beside

Cambridge Terrace, to the west of the former PGC site.

What I love about this kind of idea is it promotes

sustainable central city living and, with the playground,

will bring people together in our central city.

Te Papa tkaro / Avon River Precinct will have moved a

long way forward by spring with an inviting new

promenade developing along the river. The Terraces will

be taking shape too, near the Bridge of Remembrance,

with grassed areas, tiered seating, and ramps and decks

leading down to the river.

Recently I was privileged to attend the reopening of the

Antigua footbridge. I remember riding my bike across the

bridge as a kid, and it's great that the young and the

young at heart can use the bridge once again.

The footbridge is another significant step in Christchurch

getting back on its feet literally in this case.

Stay safe over the winter months and remember there's

plenty to look forward to throughout the year.

Eugenie Sage

Green Party MP

Rt Hon John Key

Prime Minister

of New Zealand

Hon Nicky Wagner National Party MP

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While the Christchurch central city occupies centre

stage in the rebuild, the industrial property sector is

the unsung hero of the market and is continuing to

attract enormous interest.

We believe that considerable unsatisfied demand this year is

set to further fuel the sector's already stellar performance

and we expect to see continued pressure on investment

yields.

Interest rates are cyclically low and early indications in 2015

suggest they are likely to be lower for longer yet. This has

enabled a re-rating of risk margins. Average prime industrial

yields pushed below 7 percent at the end of 2014, the first

time in our 20-year historical time series. Investors and

owner-occupiers have bolstered the market's exuberance,

both confident that industrial property is a solid bet at current

margins.

In Canterbury, arguably the biggest beneficiary of post quake

activity is Hornby and Rolleston, both from a residential and

industrial perspective. The Rolleston area is booming and

business parks, such as Izone and the new Carter Group

Development, are in increasing demand. Such activity is in

no small part helped by the $900 million upgrade of

Canterbury's motorways, part of the national roads of

significance project.

The completion of Stage 1 of the Southern Motorway is

certainly fuelling interest in the area, as freight transport is

made easier from Lyttelton Port right through to Rolleston.

Construction of Stage 2, which includes widening the

existing highway to just north of Rolleston, will be tendered

early in 2016.

In industrial leasing, we've seen rentals begin to plateau as

the market has become more competitive with increasing

availability of existing and new stock. For instance, Goodman

Property Trust has recently built two spec units of 1600m2

and 2000m2 in its Glassworks Industry Park which have both

been leased by Colliers. We expect this competitive trend to

continue.

Sam Staite

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of Industrial Sales & Leasing

Peter Townsend

Canterbury Employers

Chamber of Commerce

Chief Executive

It is useful from time to time to think ahead and

consider our positioning in the future and what it might

all mean to us.

This is very important in the context of the Christchurch

rebuild.

Here are ten questions we might be asking ourselves in

2026:

1) Why didn't we appreciate the scale of the rebuild and

the consequential impacts of tipping $40+ billion

dollars into a population of 360,700?

2) Why were we so optimistic about timeframes?

3) Do we remember just how well insured we were?

4) Did we underestimate the long term psycho-social

impacts of the earthquakes?

5) Why didn't we settle earlier, on a common aspiration

for our city, our region and our island?

6) Did we get Central Government, Local Government

and our community really working towards agreed

common objectives?

7) Did we put enough emphasis on the economic

interdependencies between our city and our region?

8) Did we recognise early enough the importance of

ensuring Council owned strategic asset sales were

finalised in a way that made Christchurch more

internationally significant?

9) Did we get our transport infrastructure right; easy

access in and around our city and parking in the

central city?

10) Why did we ever doubt that we would create the

most attractive and liveable city in Australasia post-

earthquake?

Food for thought?

The Influencers -

CanterburyRebuild - The Influencers

Antony Gough Central city

developer

Every month we seem to hear of more exciting new

builds in our CBD and we are able to celebrate the

completion of new buildings.

The new Deloitte House on the corner of Armagh and

Cambridge Terrace was opened by our Prime Minister on

April 16. It is a real credit to Stephen Collins who

commissioned and built it. To me it sets a very high

benchmark for all other new builds to aspire to.

Ngi Tahu also announced their $150 million office

apartment and car park complex on the old Police building

and King Edwards barracks site. It will house up to 1,500

workers from various Government departments plus EY's

(formerly Ernst&Young) new offices.

The big engineering firm Aurecom is also to move into this

development, the first to contain residential apartments in

the core CBD. I was thrilled to see Ngi Tahu also realises

the critical need for CBD parking by incorporating a 600+

car parking building.

The brand new Tait Electronic offices also were opened in

April. This is a fantastic Canterbury growth business that

exports communications equipment to the four corners of

the world in a very fast changing and competitive

environment. Well done Tait.

The start of the Memorial Avenue/Russley Road flyover

system also started in April and this two year project will

act as the premier gateway from our airport for most

visitors to Christchurch. Not only will it serve to solve the

traffic congestion of this intersection, but it will have some

huge architectural arches spanning this flyover as a

powerful statement to our visitors.

These extra arches will cost $7 million and are purely for

aesthetics. Great to see transport NZ is also wanting to

make Christchurch feel really special. Roads and bridges

can all too often be a bit boring.

The pace of the rebuild is really on in the CBD with so

many buildings now off the drawing board and into

construction. It's worth having a wander down Tuam Street

east of High Street to see the new Vodafone building and

Kathmandu buildings also rising out of the ground here.

Roll on 2015 to see our new CBD come alive.

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LEGAL ADVICE

Law changes for

Building Contracts

Trial periods

& tribulations

Ben McCall

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Graeme Riach

HARMANS PARTNER

From 1 January this year new protection measures

came into force under the Building Act 2004 (Act).

The effect of the change is to provide more

information and protection to parties who enter into

residential building contracts for building work to

household units where the value of the work exceeds

$30,000.00.

The Act defines building work as construction,

alterations, demolition and removal of a building, site

works and for work in connection with those activities. A

household unit is defined as being a building or group

of buildings intended to be used only or mainly for

residential purposes by one household and excludes

hostels, boarding houses and other specialised

accommodation.

The changes to the Act require contractors to provide

a disclosure statement and checklist to their clients prior

to the clients signing the contract. Examples include

details about the building contractor, information as the

contractor's key contact person including their

qualifications, skills and experience, details of insurance

policies and information about guarantees and

warranties the contractor is offering.

All residential contracts for such building work must

now be in writing and include the following details:

! Description of the work site and building work

! Start and completion dates

! Contract price and payment mechanisms

! Provisions for variations and delays

! How defects will be remedied (including an implied

12 month defect liability period) and

! Dispute resolution provisions and how notices are

served.

The Act also contains implied warranties concerning

the nature of the building work, the materials to be

supplied and that the building work will be carried out in

accordance with all laws and legal requirements relating

to the building work. Further implied warranties require

that the building work will be carried out with reasonable

care and skill, completed by the time stated, and where

a purpose for the building work is included that it will be

reasonable fit for that purpose.

Contractors are also required to provide further

information after completion of the works. This

information includes copy guarantees and warranties

that apply to the building work and any maintenance

information required.

Failure to comply with these changes to the Act is an

offence under the Act.

Disclaimer: The content of this article is general in

nature and not intended as a substitute for specific

professional advice on any matter and should not be

relied upon for that purpose.

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The rapid up-scaling of contractor firms due to the

huge increase in work from the Canterbury rebuild

has resulted in many difficulties related to

employment of staff. Builders and other tradies, who for

years operated perfectly well by themselves, have been

required to take on employees to cope with the

workload and consequently have been drawn into the

mine field of employment law.

Having appropriate employment agreements,

disciplining staff, sorting out pay and PAYE obligations

are particularly difficult areas. The use of trial periods

and knowing when they are enforceable can also trip up

unwary employers.

With shortages of skilled labour it can be a real benefit

to employers to take on workers on a trial basis. The

current employment legislation allows this and arguably

encourages it by making it unlawful for employees to

bring personal grievances if they have been dismissed

during the trial period except on certain grounds such

as discrimination.

But there are real fish hooks associated with trial

periods. The Employment Courts have strictly

interpreted the legislation so it is vital to get everything

absolutely correct in order to obtain the statutory

protection. In particular:

! The trial period only applies to new employees

! The trial period must be part of a written

employment agreement

! The intending employee must be given an adequate

opportunity to read and take advice on the contract

before they sign it

! The agreement must be signed before the

employee commences work. Even a contract

signed later on the first day of work has been held

to be insufficient as they were already an employee

and therefore not new when they signed!

! The trial period clause in the agreement must be

worded properly to achieve the protection

! The over-riding requirement to use good faith in

employment dealings means that the employee

being dismissed should be at least told of the

reasons why

! The notice of dismissal must be given during the

trial period although it may expire after the trial

period.

These principles apply equally to casual and part time

staff. It is therefore vital that employers get appropriate

advice on their employment agreements and ensure that

these are up to date and compliant with the legislation.

The process of employment must be understood.

Money spent on this now will save much more

expense later if it all goes wrong and a personal

grievance lands in your mail

Every issue Canterbury Build

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