By the EERI Reconnaissance Team.
March 19, 2011. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering has developed procedures and guidelines for the rapid assessment of buildings following earthquakes,
Read the Report: Building Safety Evaluation in a State of Emergency: Guidelines for Territorial Authorities (1.1 MB PDF)
The meaning of the red, green, and yellow placards required explanation for some building owners, tenants, and residents. The Christchurch City Council provided extensive information on their earthquake recovery website regarding what the placards mean, and do not mean.
Perhaps a lesson from the 2010 Christchurch Earthquake relates to the usefulness of readily-available structural drawings of larger buildings in post-earthquake evaluations.
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| Figure 1. Green placard. | Figure 2. Red placard. | Figure 3. Yellow placard. |
Learning from Earthquakes: First person reports
