Talk with Engineer - Lloyd Ellis

• Need to go down roughly 17m to hit bedrock in Christchurch
• Piles down 17m from ground, spaced 5m apart

• Structure under the old building (ie. the new bits) will most probably be concrete

• Existing masonry will require reinforcing with a steel frame on the outside - steel will go down into a large concrete footing to stabilise. Then the new building (ground floor down) will be placed inside this.
• Either put steel frame on the inside around the whole existing OR steel frame for auditorium and tie the existing back to this to stabilise
• Circular auditorium space could be poured concrete with layers or GRC - can be coloured (either)
• Facade will need strengthening also