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Editor Canterbury Rebuild Magazine

Melinda Collins

First tenant for citys south west super

development pg 42-43

River inspired architecture illustrates

Chch commitment pg 18-23

Construction begins on

entertainment precinct pg 31

Editors note.

While 151 Cambridge Terrace is still

a work in progress, the six level,

base isolated office building

totaling 7,328m2 on the Avon River

precinct boundary is already a

spectacular city addition.

I purchased my first house in 2005 for $177,000. I purchased my second in

2013 for $320,000. Same square meterage, same suburb, two kilometres

apart.

According to data from REINZ, house prices in Christchurch are continuing

to rise, reaching a new record median price in May of $436,000 or lets

say, around five times the annual income. Thankfully I like to renovate.

With rising house prices and an increasing population, the home ownership

dream is rapidly diminishing. So it seems the quintessential quarter acre

dream has been reduced to a 350 square metre subdivided section from

which you can whisper to the neighbours and theyll still hear you.

I do sometimes have concerns about whether my children will have the

freedom of home ownership one day, but I also know my parents had the

same concerns when interest rates hit the double digits. And, being the

glass half full kind of person I strive every day to be, I can see light at the

end of the tunnel and I can see the regional and national efforts to

counteract these residential restrictions.

This issue we look at the new partnership between Fletcher Building and the

Government, established to construct a range of affordable new homes

within the city over the next two years.

We look at local building company Generation Homes which is carrying out

remedial work on TC3 zoned sections and offering house and land

packages on these properties as a low cost housing alternative.

There is huge momentum in the citys housing recovery with a new home

build rate of 12 homes a day. I, for one, will be hoping the average

Cantabrian can afford to buy them.

7: Improved name to match

improved premises

11: Asbestos website launched

for local homeowners

18-23: River inspired architecture

illustrates Chch commitment

24: Overseas architectural firm

bursts into NZ scene

25: NZ's high-skill industries drive

staffing demand

28: Additions to affordable inner

city housing

31: Construction begins on

entertainment precinct

32: Need help deciding about a

managed repair?

36: Assessing risk in the

workplace

41: Predicting multi-storey quake

damage

42-43: First tenant for citys south

west super development

45: Developing affordable

housing options on TC3 land

Prime Minister John Key, Canterbury Earthquake

Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee, and

Christchurch Central MP Nicky Wagner, discussing

rebuild progress in the city centre, in this issues

Influencers columns on pages 4-5.

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Poto Williams

Labour MP

Christchurch East

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Rt Hon John Key

Prime Minister

Lianne Dalziel

Christchurch Mayor

Next year we will have the perfect opportunity to

showcase our city, both nationally and internationally,

when Christchurch plays host to a number of world-

class events.

2015 is a big year in the events calendar, starting in February

when the ICC Cricket World Cup comes to town. This

tournament is one of the world's most viewed sporting events

and is considered the flagship event of the international cricket

calendar. Our city is fortunate to be hosting the opening

ceremony on 12 February as well as the opening match two

days later. In our journey of rebuilding our city we have created

a new world-class cricket facility at Hagley Oval, the first of the

city's key anchor projects. Given its location, this new facility is

in one of the most picturesque sporting locations in the world.

It's been nearly 30 years since we hosted the Te Matatini

National Kapa Haka Festival, but in March 2015 top kapa haka

teams from New Zealand and Australia will take part in the

world's largest celebration of Maori traditional performing arts.

This will generate at least $6 million for the region, involve 1,800

performers, provide work for 1,300 people plus 400 volunteers,

and entertain more than 30,000 people over four days.

In May and June the FIFA U20 Men's Football World Cup takes

centre stage and we will host six pool matches, one round of 16

match, one quarter final and one semi-final. This is FIFA's

second largest event in the world's largest sport and predictions

are that Christchurch will gain 15,000 international visitor nights

and 9,000 domestic visitor nights, with an estimated net region

cash flow of $4.3-$5.4 million.

The eyes of the world will be on Christchurch next year thanks

to these global events and with an international television

audience of millions what better way to show how far we've

come with the city's rebuild.

As a proud host we will welcome visitors here for these events,

but we also want to send a clear message to them that we want

them to come back. If we can host these people while our city is

still in the process of reinventing itself, imagine what it will be

like in the future. When they return for another taste of

Christchurch hospitality the central city's retail precinct will be up

and running, 16 other key anchor projects will be underway or

nearing completion, new hotels will have sprung up around the

city, our horizontal infrastructure will be fixed and our homes will

be rebuilt or repaired.

As a city we all must embrace the opportunity these fantastic

events will bring us it provides an ideal platform to entice

people to come back and visit our city to see first-hand just

what we've achieved.

Every time I visit Canterbury there is something new

to see, and this busy rebuild phase is only going to

ramp up over the next few years.

We are making great strides with key Anchor Projects.

From the Justice and Emergency Services Precinct, to the

Bus Interchange, to the Avon River Precinct, these

projects are contributing to the city's busy construction

activity, alongside the commercial construction in the

CBD, especially in the Retail Precinct.

Construction of The Terraces project, part of the Avon

River Precinct, is now underway.

Once completed, The Terraces will extend from Cashel to

Gloucester streets and will be an open waterfront space

linking the Avon River with public spaces, shops, and

restaurants.

People will be able to come to the city and relax by the

water's edge, and enjoy live performances and events.

The scale of some of these anchor projects shows just

how much effort and investment the Government is

putting in.

Hundreds of truck-loads of cement were recently poured

for the Bus Interchange, the largest concrete pour in

Christchurch since the earthquakes.

The Interchange is expected to be up and running by next

winter.

Nearly 1500 square metres of concrete is being poured for

this project, but it's dwarfed by the extent of the concrete

pour at the Justice and Emergency Services Precinct site

where some 9,600 square metres of concrete is needed.

The Government is making progress with repairing its

housing stock. Housing New Zealand is passing the

halfway mark in its plans to repair 5,000 earthquake-

damaged properties, with more than 200 houses being

fixed every month.

In the central city, road and pipe repairs will be 90 per cent

complete by Christmas and, across the city, the horizontal

infrastructure rebuild programme is more than half

complete.

While there is still much to be done, we are moving further

and further into the rebuild phase and this is set to

continue for some years to come.

I firmly believe that the new Christchurch won't just be as

good as it was before, but better, and a great place to live,

work and raise a family in.

WFor all sorts of reasons, housing will be significant as

the big issue in a successful rebuild for our people

and our city. All the pressures of a speculative housing

market felt in Auckland, in particular, are amplified here as

competition increases by homeowners desperate to replace

homes as more insurance money flows into the region.

Landlords are experiencing very healthy returns and they are

able to command heavy increases in rent and demand short

term leases and extra fees. This not only prices people out, but

advantages those with the income or the payout to match.

Many have asked why rent caps could not have been

introduced, tightly controlled and time specified. While I

sympathise, I can see the problems with driving some less than

scrupulous landlords to 'under the table' activity that further

diminishes a tenant's ability to get a fair deal. Increases in rent

are reported to be in the region of 40 percent plus, without the

corresponding increase in income level to match.

Resources already stretched in communities to support low

income families, are further burdened by families desperate to

find suitable accommodation and the overcrowding so readily

accepted in the recent months post-quake are no longer

tolerable. This impacts the health and wellbeing of those

affected and can damage relationships at a time when we all

need each other to get through. Families deserve better and it is

up to the Local and Central Government to ensure the

provisions of the Housing Accord are fulfilled, though currently

there seems little in the way of practical bricks and mortar.

Hold ups could occur freeing up sufficient suitable land,

consent processes still need to be improved and the parties live

up to the partnership expressed within the Housing Accord. It is

an opportunity too vital to get wrong and I know the partners are

doing their level best to get this right. So what practical support

can I offer to the constituents? Well, I continue to advocate for

social housing on an individual level as well as at the national

level, and I have used my networks to develop local

collaborations to support the most vulnerable and needy to

have access to additional services. I must support the

Christchurch City Council's desire to become a social housing

provider so they can access support from the government. But

this is an issue of supply, and overwhelmingly the answer is to

fast track the building of houses, to increase the numbers of

social housing units available, rather than just provide the

mechanism for the build of the houses to occur.

If the statements about reducing child poverty are going to have

any chance of becoming a reality, then Housing needs to

become the Governments major priority. Take a leaf out of

Labour's history of building homes, we are happy to share,

because it is in the best interest of our people.


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Metiria Turei

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Antony Gough

Central city

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Spring has sprung and so are the new buildings in the

centre of the Christchurch. Work is processing now

on three separate sites in the retail precinct with Nick

Hunt's Cashel Square building on Hereford Street already

3 storeys up. Ground remediation has been completed on

the Cashel Street side in preparation for this side to start

building. Tim Glasson's Triangle Centre has started work

on site with Leighs Construction. And my Terrace project

has been quietly having its steel building frames erected

showing the Oxford Terrace building outline now.

Grand Central, where the Grand Chancellor Hotel was, has

now been fenced and work has started on a seven story

high office building here.

Steve Collins' Deloitte House is progressing well with its

distinctive glass vertical fins now appearing. This is a very

striking building that sets a new high bench mark for

Christchurch buildings.

A number of other buildings are rising up along Durham

and Cambridge Terrace. Every week this landscape is

changing as the rebuild rolls into the city. This is such an

exciting time as one watches the skeletons of buildings

going up and I cannot wait to see its finished form.

The Wynn Williams building on the corner of Montreal and

Hereford Street is due to finish in October with the anchor

tenant Wynn Williams to move in at the months end.

The original loop for the tram is being readied for re-

opening in November 2014. Downers are actively working

on raising and straightening the new tram lines along

Oxford Terrace between Cashel and Worcester Streets. It is

hoped this second loop will be operating by February 2015

for the Cricket World Cup.

Restart has settled into its new home close to the Bridge of

Remembrance on the south side of Cashel Street.

The bus exchange and justice precinct are now well into

build mode.

It is worth a trip into the city to see all the new buildings

progressing as our CBD is showing its new face across

the city.

Water in Canterbury is a hot topic.

Environment Canterbury's (ECan)

proposal to allow more pollution from

irrigation and intensive agriculture in the Selwyn

Catchment is currently before a hearing panel.

This pollution will have negative effects on the

water quality of our rivers, as well as drinking

water supplies.

At the recent ECan hearing on the plan variation,

the Canterbury Medical Officer of Health, Dr

Alistair Humphrey, raised concerns about the

impact of the proposal. His evidence highlighted

his concerns about the impact of the proposal on

people's ability to swim in the Selwyn River, and

the prospect of water pollution affecting drinking

water supplies.

Dr Humphrey advocated that ECan set water

quality targets for recreation in the Selwyn that

ensure the Selwyn is safe for swimming, or at the

very least, see reduced water pollution.

But it's not just the impact on our ability to safely

go for a swim, or take the dog for a walk. The

proposal also will affect groundwater the source

of people's drinking water. ECan's proposal would

result in elevated levels of nitrogen in the aquifers

connected to the Selwyn river system. While the

proposal includes plans to dilute the nitrogen

using clean water from higher in the catchment

the target levels are set above regional targets.

Dr Humphrey has called for more conservative

limits on nitrogen levels. What is proposed is

dangerously close to the maximum limit and

leaves little room for error.

Cantabrians have enough on their plates without

having to worry about whether their famously

clean drinking water is safe or not; it should be a

given.

Peter Townsend

Canterbury Employers

Chamber of Commerce

The further we get into the rebuild the more accurate the figures

become with regards to the total cost of the rebuild and where we

are at in terms of the recreation of our city. The $40 billion figure that

has been touted now for many months, and was initially based on a lot of

very raw data and estimation, is proving to be remarkably accurate. It looks

now as if the total residential recovery cost will be very close to $20 billion.

This includes all insurance cover, EQC and private insurers, and a margin

for improvements. Whether or not it covers all cost escalation remains to

be seen. The total commercial and public sector rebuilds have a combined

value of around $16.1 million. Infrastructure costs look as if they are going

to fall to around a total of $2.9 billion at this stage. It adds up to $39 billion

and those figures are based on information provided by the Insurance

Council, MBIE and CERA, together with private sector analysis and are

looking more and more robust by the day.

Given that the construction of our city is advancing rapidly, it is a fair guess

that we are around 25% into the rebuild of our city with horizontal

infrastructure probably the most advanced, followed by housing and then

the commercial rebuild. The public sector rebuild, although well planned,

still has a long way to go.

It is really important that we continue to refine these numbers and continue

to get the most accurate fix we can on the total cost of the damage, the

total cost of the rebuild (taking into account betterment and cost

escalation), and the stage we are at in terms of the recovery and the

rebuild.

From a timing perspective we are probably a third of the way through the

rebuild in total, however we can anticipate a relatively long tail in some

sectors of the rebuild, particularly some of the more complex private sector

commercial construction where resource constraints may come into play.

Importantly we are on track, there is a lot of money being spent (now

estimated at $100 million per week, every week) and progress is becoming

more and more obvious. The insurance industry tells us that they are about

20% through the repair and rebuild of insurance managed claims and that

half of the over capped claims, equally about 11,000 homes to be replaced

or rebuilt, have been cash settled. We have estimated that that sector of

the household repairs could add up to over $5 billion which is cash in the

hands of owners who will either buy property or repair or rebuild their

existing dwellings depending on their circumstances.

It is exciting when a massive amount of financial resource and energy is

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Q SA s s e t S u r e

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agents involved) with a bit more say on the choices compared to the

group housing companies. Occasionally the buyer has a

preconceived dislike for the larger companies either from a real

experience or some anecdotal story that leads them towards a

smaller builder. In one sense a part of the perception problem is

already solved. As they are buying a house being built they already

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What gets in the way of the sale?

One of the major difculties is negotiating with condence. Prospective buyers will frequently test a builders resolve or have a benchmark

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degrades into multiple requests for adjustments and client side obscurity as to what the end should be. Lets face it, the builder wants to

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Many still live in turmoil, with no

decisions on the future of their

home, or decisions they

suspect are unfair or wrong. With

shaken condence, confusion and

inability to sort fact from ction, where

do you turn for unbiased, professional

advice that is based on the truth and

nothing but the truth and the cold hard

facts?

Quantity surveyor, Victoria Whitta,

director of Red QS has always been

outspoken about standing up for the

"little guys". "We simply want to help

people move forward with their lives. We

are Christchurch people who genuinely

care about homeowners getting clarity

and resolution about their homes repairs

or rebuilds."

Red QS cares so much it is offering a

charitable duo - a free 20-minute

consultation with a qualied quantity

surveyor in return for a $20 donation to

Canterbury Earthquake Children's Trust.

Somewhere to turn for

Thousands of people have had their foundations

shaken by the earthquakes, and we're not just

speaking guratively, but also emotionally.

"Sometimes people might not need a

QS, or need one yet, but I can sit down

with them and look at the big picture

and make recommendations and

referrals on where they would be best to

go next to bring about resolution."

Victoria says the role of a quantity

surveyor naturally encompasses the big

picture. "We do not look at bits of a

project, it's our job to be able to put a

cost against an entire job. This gives us

a broad perspective."

For example, Victoria worked with a

client who had been given the jack and

pack repair method initially until an

independent engineer proved a

foundation replacement was required,

but due to a protected tree she

identied in front of the property, the

house could not be lifted and moved to

undertake the repair, and so it became a

rebuild."Leading up to Christmas, we

really want to help more of the people

who are unsure about the future of their

"WE SIMPLY WANT TO HELP PEOPLE MOVE FORWARD WITH

THEIR LIVES. WE ARE CHRISTCHURCH PEOPLE WHO GENUINELY

CARE ABOUT HOMEOWNERS GETTING CLARITY AND

RESOLUTION ABOUT THEIR HOMES REPAIRS OR REBUILDS."

Qualied quantity surveyor and afliate

member of the NZ Institute of Quantity

Surveyors (ANZIQS), Victoria Whitta of

Red QS is supporting charity by offering

free consultations to homeowners

needing independent, professional

advice on where to head with insurance

claims that are in dispute.

homes. We invite them to take

advantage of this charity offer. We are

completely independent and can

provide professional guidance."

It might be as simple as discussing

the offer you have from your insurance

company to get a professional opinion

on whether it's fair, or help managing a

much more complex investigation such

as whether foundation damage is

unbiased advice

historical or quake related.

"Come in and talk it over. Every case

is entirely different and we want to

help people sort out what is fact and

what isn't. Most of all we just want

people to be able to make informed

decisions and get on with their lives.

Red QS can be contacted on 928

1107 and at redgroup.co.nz.

BEWILDE about your house pricing?RED

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Documents

entertainment precinct

range of affordable

new partnership

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home ownership dream

rising house prices

affordable inner city

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