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To date, the council has issued 93 earthquake building notices. Earthquake-prone building owners will either have to display an orange framed notice identifying it is rate 0 to 20 percent of the New Building Standards, or a black and white notice highlighting it is rated at 20 to 34 percent. “We are going to see these in the city going forward with building owners required to fix these in prominent locations on the front of their buildings,” Hartstonge said. “Some buildings require multiple signs with multiple entry points. The intent of these is that building owners know what they are walking into before they go in.”
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Invercargill Central Ltd director Scott O’Donnell, pictured here in the old Cambridge Arcade says strengthening earthquake prone buildings comes at a huge cost. The arcade was listed on the priority earthquake prone building register. It was demolished as part of the CBD redevelopment, but care was taken to keep historical facades.
The cost of strengthening earthquake prone buildings poses a significant challenge to small-town New Zealand, Invercargill Central Ltd director Scott O’Donnell says. This comes after the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) recently announced that all the priority earthquake prone buildings in New Zealand’s high seismic risk areas had been identified, and it was moving on to identifying the non-priority buildings that needed strengthening.