The project team aimed to reuse as much of the building material as possible. Paterson estimated about half of the material would be reused to finish the reinstated cathedral, but much of the rubble inside would be too damaged. Christchurch consultancy Soil Matters, which turns waste products from the dairy industry into fertiliser, was approached last year with the idea of potentially recycling the tonnes of pigeon droppings and broken limestone into something useful.
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A Christchurch company had plans to recycle the pigeon droppings and limestone to turn into agricultural fertiliser. General manager Rik Mulder said his team came up with the idea last June to recycle nutrients including nitrogen, phosphorous and calcium containedin the pigeon droppings and limestone, once they had been tested and deemed safe.
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Sue Spigel was in the Christ Church Cathedral during the 2011 earthquake. A decade on, she has just been reunited with her items.
The Anglicans’ ruling body may have to change its approval terms for restoration of the Christ Church Cathedral to avoid work stopping in October if more funds cannot be found. When the Anglican Synod approved restoration of the cathedral in 2017, the terms stipulated that each stage could only go ahead if the full funding for that stage was already in place. At least $103 million is currently in place for the project, which is expected to cost approximately $154m. The first stage, which involves stabilising the cathedral with large steel frames, is under way and will cost $11.8m.
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Philip Burdon, pictured here in 2018, had already donated $1m to restoration of Christ Church Cathedral and helped campaign to save the building from demolition.
Christchurch businessman and former politician Philip Burdon has donated another $4 million to the restoration of the Christ Church Cathedral on top of his original $1m gift made soon after the 2011 earthquakes. It comes ahead of a fundraising campaign to be launched in March to raise up to $26m by October to keep the restoration project on track. Burdon, who successfully campaigned to save the cathedral from demolition with the late Jim Anderton, said he was confident the multimillion-dollar funding shortfall for the $154.3m restoration project could be raised.
Christ Church Cathedral finally whole almost a decade after 2011 earthquake Newshub 17/12/2020
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For the first time since the 2011 earthquake there is no longer a gaping hole in the front of the Christ Church Cathedral.
A 13 metre high, 18-tonne steel frame was craned into the front of the earthquake-damaged cathedral on Thursday.
Keith Peterson, the Project Director of Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Project, says it s a huge moment for the city. It s been the iconic miserable story for Christchurch hasn t it, whenever there s a problem you show this view of the cathedral with a gaping hole in it, he told Newshub.
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 10:46 am | Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Project An impressive steel frame measuring 13.2 metres high by 10.3 metres wide has been
installed today on the western façade of Christ Church Cathedral. Project Director
Keith Paterson says the 18-tonne frame is a key component of the stabilisation work . More
Friday, 23 October 2020, 6:07 am | Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Project 22 October The Concept Design and overarching vision for the reinstatement of Christ
Church Cathedral provides the first public glimpse into the future reality of the
city’s heritage and community centrepiece. The Concept Design, being released today, . More