Seismics and the City 18 March 2016 Working Together Strengthens Understanding How EQC led a collaborative research project in Canterbury that involved diverse stakeholders from government, council officials and insurers to homeowners, and why collaboration means that Canterbury's geotechnical data is now helping to inform research locally, nationally and around the world.

1. Working together
strengthens understanding
Dr Hugh Cowan
General Manager
Reinsurance, Research and Education

2. What happened
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3. Significant quantities of new data

4. Benefits of sharing
 Less duplication of effort and cost
 Improved understanding of risk and variability
 Better predictions for similar sites elsewhere
 Growing value as data is available and used with
other datasets

5. From regional to local understanding
 Practical solutions for
houses on vulnerable
land
 Bringing the world’s
best minds together
in Christchurch
 Principles of
transparency and
open science review

6. Science trials
 Different methods
tested
 Adapting industrial
methods to a
residential scale
 Testing what works

7. Practical application
 Determine the costs
and practicalities of
five methods
 31 households
involved

8. Working together
 Householders
 Insurers
 Engineers
 Contractors
 Local authorities
 Central government – MBIE, Housing NZ, NZTA
 University of Canterbury
 International scientists and engineers

9. Working together
• Transcending commercial and regulatory interests
• Building understanding of the project and objectives
• Sharing technical information simply
• Involving independent community advocates
• Seeking to understand unmet needs and earn trust

10. Practical results
 Practical methods for ground improvement
 General contractors can do more of the work
 Knowledge of cost and affordability
 Increased research investment from overseas
 Enhanced scientific and engineering understanding
around the world

11. No es tarde el bien, como venga
Whenever good things arrive,
they are not late