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Rebuilding Christchurch

Have just written a piece for Construction News about construction (surprisingly) in New Zealand, Canada and Australia. I love trade journals. Geeky I know but I do. You get a privileged lense through which to examine things. New Zealand is all about rebuilding Christchurch, devastated by three earthquakes in 2010-11. It is the chance to construct a brand new city centre - pretty damn unusual. Australia is all about huge, vast, glitzy projects like the Barangaroo waterfront development with a floating hotel - their economy is booming. In Canada it's much more rugged and austere - mining the oil sands, building hospitals for their lovely free healthcare system.

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