As many of you know I have been working with some precasters in New Zealand on developing modern arch bridges for the market there. One issue that is always raised is earthquakes. Usually on
the lines of “we can’t build those, they will just rattle down in a ‘quake.” Well they don’t. There are good reasons why they don’t. I knew there were a few arches in Christchurch, but the only way to find out how they fared in 2009 is to go and look and back in
November I finally got the chance.