Presented by Dr. Matthew Ryan

Register HERE

The 7.8 Mw Kaikōura earthquake in 2006 lead to the demolition of 20 buildings in Wellington, with insurance claims totaling over 2 billion NZD.  The engineering of seismically resilient buildings constructed thereafter require extensive ground investigations to build a more complete picture of the subsurface conditions. The retrieval of deep sediment cores used for geotechnical assessments from Wellington also offer incredibly valuable insights into prehistoric landscapes and major past environmental shifts…….Read more attached.