Video – Nikau checks out…

New film charts post-quake demolition of New Zealand hotel.

The demolition industry’s reaction to the massive earthquake that hit New Zealand back in February 2011 has been fascinating to watch. And while for most of us outside of New Zealand that quake (and the second in 2016) have become a distant memory, those events will likely remain fixed in the minds of New Zealanders for the rest of their lives.

They will certainly live long in the memory of award-winning demolition contractor Nikau which found itself at the very epicentre of the post-quake demolition works.

This new film charts the demolition of the Holiday Inn hotel in Christchurch, one of the places worst hit by the 2011 quake: