Earthquake
Legacy Series: Taiora QEII Recreation and Sport Centre
Taiora QEII Recreation and Sports Centre is a new facility built on the site of the original and much loved QEII stadium and pools. These were originally built for the 1974 Commonwealth Games but were destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The new centre includes a 25m competition pool with an innovative moveable floor, learn…
Read MoreSpires Scuplture
The Press recently featured an article titled ‘Conjuring Space and Freedom’ about a project being undertaken by a group of Christchurch individuals and companies for the benefit of the Christchurch Community. This project is being led by renowned sculptor Neil Dawson (the same person who brought us ‘The Chalice’) and has been hugely supported by…
Read MoreGoodbye PWC
The demise of a wonderful Christchurch high-rise building and the dawn of a new future, whatever that may be. Like many companies based in the CBD in February 2011 we had to leave our beloved premises (The Price Waterhouse Coopers Building ‘PWC’). As mentioned in our last newsletter we have been lucky to find offices in the Bishopdale…
Read MoreLessons learned from the earthquakes
2011 has certainly been a year of learning. Here in Christchurch we have certainly learnt a lot about earthquakes, the terminology and some of the science behind them. At Fox & Associates we have had the opportunity to be involved with a huge variety of earthquake related work and this has required us to think…
Read MoreCarl’s reflections on the Earthquakes
My reflections about how the earthquakes have changed our business since September 2010. Just to put things into context we at Fox & Associates are very lucky. There was no loss of life and any physical damage we have individually suffered has been relatively minor. However in saying this everything we knew about Christchurch has…
Read MoreNew Toys
Yep, we’ve bought some new kit. Given the amount & type of work coming out of the earthquake we’ve purchased a digital level. It’s a Trimble DiNi (which means that it plays nicely with our Trimble software). The digital bit means it reads a bar-code on the staff thus speeding things up and eliminating possible…
Read MoreOur new Offices
We’ve found ourselves a new place to stay: Here’s what it looks like (we’re on the bottom floor – phew!) Physical address is Units 6 & 7, 333 Harewood Road, Bishopdale (in the Bishopdale Mall), come in for a coffee and a chat! And if you want to let us know you’re coming then…
Read MoreEarthquake images
Here’s some of the images of the earthquake: First a shot from the Port Hills showing the dust cloud after the quake. (from http://i.imgur.com/0vZbD.jpg) An airforce chopper took photos of bits of the city on the day of the quake at this website http://nzdf.mil.nz/downloads/gio/default.html And finally here’s the video that was shown before yesterdays Memorial Service:…
Read MoreDrama with Telecom
Oh, the drama we’ve had with Telecom! Suffice it to say that most of the Telecom people I dealt with were very nice. But it’s obviously such a bohemoth that they dont really know what they’re doing. At one stage I got transferred to one section of Telecom “because they’ll be able to sort it…
Read MoreEarthquake Update
A quick update as to where we are at. We have relocated to Mike’s lounge (again…) but have hopefully secured some new premises outside of the CBD and will be mostly operational from there from Monday 7th March. We will let you know more details as they are confirmed. We were lucky enough to be granted…
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