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
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