23 May 2019

Shock at new quake-prone building in Christchurch

From Morning Report, 7:45 am on 23 May 2019

A woman badly injured in the Christchurch earthquake is astonished a new building in the city has been found to have serious seismic flaws.

The empty new office building at 230 High Street has multiple problems in its earthquake design that the city council was warned about almost two years ago.

Construction of the seven-storey building continued even after those warnings in December 2017.

Susie Ferguson speaks to University of Canterbury lecturer Ann Brower, who was crushed after falling masonry fell on her bus during the February twenty-second 2011 earthquake.