Pressure - State - Response

Following the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, a priority was to restore the essential services, including electricity and water. As widely reported, rebuilding the horizontal infrastructure was a substantial project of immense scale. To undertake this task, an alliance model was used involving CERA, the Christchurch City Council, NZTA, City Care, Downer, Fletcher, Fulton Hogan and McConnell Dowell. The SCIRT alliance has been widely recognised as one of the success stories of the recovery.

The overall goal of SCIRT is "creating resilient infrastructure that gives people security and confidence in the future of Christchurch."

As seen from the chart below, substantial progress has been made on the horizontal infrastructure (31 August 2013 figures). To put it into context, progress to date equates to 5 rugby fields of asphalt and wastewater pipe extending from Auckland to the Bay of Islands or Wellington to Wanganui.

Work has now started on the horizontal infrastructure for the central city.