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Speaker 1: Our local impeter is James me good morning, Hokanui.

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Speaker 2: Should I find what a great New Zealander look?

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Speaker 1: That's fair. She could buy up a hunk of mid

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Speaker 1: Canterbury if she was keen. And if it does have

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Speaker 1: some old buildings on, it's not as much pressure to

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Speaker 1: go and do them up. Now I see there's a

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Speaker 1: seismic change to earthquake rules. What's going on here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, big shift in how we assess earthquake prone buildings.

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Speaker 2: So the old scheme is put in place after the

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Speaker 2: Cristis shoes quecs, and probably rightfully so out of precaution

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Speaker 2: for some of the rest to falling masonry. We've decided

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Speaker 2: that a new approach will be risk based and so

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Speaker 2: a lot of the buildings you see around town that

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Speaker 2: an earthquake prone will be removed completely. I think about

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Speaker 2: seven will be removed completely and the remainder will only

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Speaker 2: have to undertake remediation for masonry. The rest of them

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Speaker 2: will be fine to use and operate, and so hopefully

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Speaker 2: that will reduce a whole lot of costs around the

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Speaker 2: region and around the country and that businesses get on

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Speaker 2: with revitalizing our CBDs.

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Speaker 1: Of course you mentioned we're no stranger to shaking in

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Speaker 1: this part of the world. How are you reassuring people

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Speaker 1: that this is being put forward with safety first? There

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Speaker 1: could be a few thinking or I don't like the

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Speaker 1: idea of going into what was before deemed an earthquake

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Speaker 1: prime building.

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Speaker 3: James Mega, Well, the previous assessment were based on what

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Speaker 3: proportion of a new build standard is it up to?

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Speaker 3: And I mean we all know that the buildings that

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Speaker 3: have been built one hundred years ago that are rock solid,

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Speaker 3: and so what you need to actually look at is

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Speaker 3: what is the building like, what are the risks faced

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Speaker 3: with that building? What's this core of the structure like?

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Speaker 3: And so when you think of some of the big

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Speaker 3: tragedies in christ Church, the CTV building, the PGG building

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Speaker 3: that collapse, they had particular vulnerabilities that will still be

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Speaker 3: protected against. But the main issue that we had around

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Speaker 3: the place was the unreinforced masonry in large population areas.

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Speaker 3: So that's really what we're focusing on now. And you've

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Speaker 3: got parts of the country that will be removed completely

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Speaker 3: because there is no real seizemic risks. So that is

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Speaker 3: a paper assessment that was done and we're just re

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Speaker 3: evaluating assessment to make sure we get the risks and

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Speaker 3: costs right.

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Speaker 1: What may irk some peoples thinking, oh maybe this has

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Speaker 1: come a little late. For instance, the old Cavendish Chambers

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Speaker 1: building on Hevlock Street, it's now been bold for the

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Speaker 1: new Council car park. At the time the reason was

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Speaker 1: because of earthquake risk. Would this have potentially saved that landmark?

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Speaker 2: It's hard to tell. It would depend what the particular building,

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Speaker 2: what it's internal structures were like. So it looks there's

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Speaker 2: probably fair points that there were probably some buildings around

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Speaker 2: the place that have been demolished or strengthened when they

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Speaker 2: didn't need to. But the good thing is that those

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Speaker 2: building owners that have gone ahead with maybe removing some

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Speaker 2: older buildings and replacing them with the newer, brighter ones

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Speaker 2: have actually revitalized their CBDs as well. And the strengthening

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Speaker 2: of buildings and the update is a good thing in

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Speaker 2: the long run because it'll be good for their insurance too.

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Speaker 2: So all we're doing is we're saying we have a

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Speaker 2: risk based assessment and all current buildings that are on

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Speaker 2: their register, and what it means is that we can

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Speaker 2: safely remove a great majority of them and avoid a

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Speaker 2: lot of those costs going onto those businesses.

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Speaker 1: I personally love when things get asius up, but then

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Speaker 1: it's easy to say when it's not my money. James Mega, Hey,

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Speaker 1: exciting journeys continue for you where you're jetting off to today.

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Speaker 2: Heading off to the Chatham Island for the first time,

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Speaker 2: so it's sort of in the South Island role. When

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Speaker 2: I first got into the role, I gave Monika and

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Speaker 2: the mayor they are a cause and said, look, I

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Speaker 2: know you're not necessarily part of the sath on, but

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Speaker 2: do you want me to be a bit of an

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Speaker 2: advocate for you? And they were pretty welcoming of that.

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Speaker 2: So I'm heading over there finally for a couple of days,

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Speaker 2: just to meet all the locals and to make some

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Speaker 2: announcements around shipping supplies and vessels and visits and farmers

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Speaker 2: and have a look at the tourist and opportunities. There

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Speaker 2: s grape place I've never been. They we're really looking

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Speaker 2: forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love to visit sometime too. Are you going

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Speaker 1: by boat or are you're going by like we ning

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Speaker 1: ning Ning Sesta like plane, which case I really hope

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Speaker 1: the breeze doesn't get up before you take your trip.

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Speaker 2: I'm flying ed Chaddams and I'm actually flying in a

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Speaker 2: plane which is bigger than the plane that we normally

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Speaker 2: fly to Marua Wellington. Yeah, it's an atr T ed

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Speaker 2: Chaddams and they've actually got a sab that comes back

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Speaker 2: on the way too. So these guys are great outfit

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Speaker 2: the Chants. They've serviced the Chatham Islands for I think

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Speaker 2: forty or fifty years now. They do a really great

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Speaker 2: service and of course we'll announce some support for regional

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Speaker 2: connectivity in the past which will hopefully provide them with

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Speaker 2: an additional support so that they can continue to fly

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Speaker 2: elsewhere in the country because they do a great amount

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Speaker 2: of work around Wanganuian, around Auckland and all sorts of

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Speaker 2: places