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Property
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Encouraging homeowners to invest in building resilience

Seismic Shift: Owners should get insurance premium discounts if their homes are more resilient.

Building resilience into houses could minimise damage like this during an earthquake.

Brent Edwards Tue, 23 Jul 2024

Laurie Montie is confident his house will largely escape serious damage from another big earthquake in Canterbury.

When work started on the house in 2016, it had a design that built in greater earthquake resilience than the average house. The foundations are on two concrete slabs with a slip sheet

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Brent Edwards Tue, 23 Jul 2024
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