Dean Stevenson, a carpenter, stood outside the Canterbury Public Library under construction on Gloucester Street. He is holding a Historic Buildings of New Zealand book as he hopes one day the library...
Kerry Earl, an apprentice carpenter, mixing cement inside the new Canterbury Public Library during its construction.
Paul Freer uses an umbrella as a means of keeping the sun off him on his bulldozer while working on the new southern motorway.
Workers on the roof of the octagonal section of the former Normal School during redevelopment into Cranmer Courts apartments on the corner of Kilmore and Montreal streets.
Paul Avery and Warwick Arney working on the construction of the Canterbury Savings Bank on Waimairi Road in Ilam.
Construction site of the Canterbury Savings Bank building on the corner of High Street and Cashel Street.
View of the canopy at the A.C. Rhodes Ltd service station on Riccarton Road being lowered into position.
Mrs Lal Keen, the first resident of the Methodist Central Mission Fairhaven Residential Club, on the site of the Club during the final stages of construction at 91 Harewood Road, Papanui.
Construction workers installing a 15in diameter screen into the bottom of a 94ft well at the pumping station at 54 Colombo Street.
Workmen warming themselves with fires on top of the BNZ building, Cathedral Square.
Construction workers and machinery, working to lower a section of the Colombo Street overhead bridge into place, looking north towards the central city. The new bridge will form part of Moorhouse...
View during the construction of the Colombo Street overhead bridge looking east along Moorhouse Avenue. To the right is the Railway Station building and railway lines, with the Christchurch Gasworks...
View during the construction of the Colombo Street overhead bridge by Wilkins & Davies Construction, looking west along Moorhouse Avenue.
View of construction workers driving the third pile into the ground for the new bridge across the Heathcote River at Wilsons Road in St Martins.
A construction worker carrying out excavation work prior to the construction of the new Council parking building on Lichfield Street.
Water pipes being prepared for installation along Fitzgerald Avenue near the corner with Gloucester Street.
Exterior of the newly completed information centre at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens.
Jock Grant with moa bones he found while digging a trench for a sewer line on Main Road, Redcliffs.
Construction of the bridge crossing the Avon and linking Cambridge Terrace with Durham Street South.
Three apartments at Maryville Courts retirement village nearing completion at 155 Salisbury Street on the corner with Manchester Street.
Construction of the Brooklands Volunteer Fire Brigade fire station.
Excavator driver, Jimmy Young (right), with construction foreman, Bruce Chalklen, at the old Wigram Air Base fire station during its demolition to make way for a larger station next door.
Construction workers working on the Durham Street overbridge in Sydenham looking north along Durham Street towards the central city.
View of construction workers building a disability ramp to improve accessibility to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery from the Botanic Gardens.