Moving... (not my shed)

[charangohabsburg]

More pictures. (Click several times on the "forward" button, translate.google makes it a bit awkward and translates the legend only at the 2nd or 3rd hit).

This is a 120 years old factory building which gets a special treatment for conservation as an authentic Torres guitar would get and deserve. Costs a bit more though, glad a private company is bearing the mayor costs of the 10 million CHF move (equals ca. 11 mio AUD or 14 mio NZD). Its the biggest building which ever has been moved in Europe.

[kiwigeo]

If that was Melbourne the building would be moving faster that the train.

[Nick]

We just get mother nature to shift our buildings for us here in Christchurch Marcus
They just did a similar thing to an historic hotel in Auckland, they wanted to build a road tunnel that passed underneath it so rather than run the risk of any damage occuring whilst they tunnelled under it, they slid the hotel 100metres further down the road & out of the way, once the tunnel was constructed they slid it back into place. In true kiwi fashion it also worked out cheaper to do it that way as they then didn't have to do any underground tunneling just dig a dirty great trench & 'lay' the tunnel into it. The damage reasoning was just put forward for populace consumption, when the cash reasoning was what was really driving it

[Nick]

Found the bits for our shift...
It's the building marked "Rob Roy" on the map, it was shifted sideways across Franklin Road
http://www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/nort ... nment.html
And a time lapse of the shift

youtu.be/

[charangohabsburg]

Cool video Nick!
Surely it will be also one available once the shift is completed tomorrow or so.

Money was not the primary driving force as it seems. The owner first simply wanted to get rid of the old building - which is not (as I before stated mistakenly) an old factory but only the headquarters office building of the factory...

The place where the building was will be used for two additional rails for the railway. The restaurant that is located in a part of the building was running until this month of may. The yellow banner on the front (narrow) side of the building says "Soon your soup will get served 60 meters westwards".

I guess that afterwards the restaurant will be a 5-Star-historical-relict-of-the-city-restaurant where one can watch the time-lapse movie of the house shifting while slurping the 60-meters-westwards-soup.

[charangohabsburg]

Cool video Nick!
Surely it will be also one available once the shift is completed tomorrow or so.

I found one. I recommend you to mute the video before it starts...


youtu.be/

The journey ended up off-track by about 5 millimetres. More than 30mm would have meant a problem to connect the already built (and ready to connect) canalisation.
They say that in about two weeks people can go back to their offices in the building and the restaurant will open again. They just left things in place: