Investigation of Hastings Clock Tower looks at earthquake strengthening

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Engineers are working on the clock tower in Hastings to report on the structural design for earthquake bracing. Photo/Paul Taylor

Engineers conduct investigations into geotechnology for earthquake hardening at one of Hastings’ most iconic earthquake memorials.

The Hastings Clock Tower was built in 1935, after the magnitude 7.8 Hawke’s Bay earthquake of 1931.

It is registered with the Historic Places Trust as a Category I building and has two plaques bearing the names of those who lost their lives in Hastings during the disaster.

The clock tower at the post office that stood in Hastings is toppled during the earthquake, killing Hawke’s Bay Tribune reporter Arthur “Darby” Ryan.

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Workers have been seen around the clock tower in Hastings over the past week.

A spokeswoman for Hastings County Council said the council had engaged engineers to carry out a geotechnology investigation and report on the structural design of the earthquake strengthening clock tower.

“The current investigation work is expected to take about a week,” the spokeswoman said.

“The engineering investigation work will cost about $40,000.”

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