Material Matters: How market standards around earthquakes have taken over from government ones

Lawyer Doran Wyatt says there is a bit of a divergence between what the Government requires on earthquakes and what the private sector does. (Image: NZME)

Dileepa Fonseka

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

Zack Newman

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

Our Material Matters series of articles is taking a look at earthquake-strengthening costs and implications.Russell McVeagh partner Doran Wyatt agrees earthquake rules and standards can sometimes be a little confusing.“That’s one of the reasons I get to advise people on these sorts of things. There’s a lot of confusion about what the standards are and what the implications of that are for people,” said Wyatt, a real estate and construction specialist at the law firm's Wellington office Even the numbers are...

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