Engineer breaks down, and accepts blame

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A structural engineer has broken down and admitted responsibility for a design flaw that led to a building panel falling and killing a woman in last February's earthquake.

Dick Cusiel of LSC Consulting today gave evidence at the Canterbury earthquakes royal commission hearing into the building at 43 Lichfield St.

The building, known as the Anderson building, was one of four comprising Ballantynes department store.

Cusiel led LSC Consulting's design of the building.

At 12.51pm on February 22 last year Linda Arnold, 57, was sitting in her car outside the building when she was hit by a falling concrete panel and killed.
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