By Rachel Smalley
One of the companies operating inside the CTV building was King's Education Language School.
It taught English to foreign internationals, mainly southeast Asians, who were seeking work in our medical system.
Forty six people are still missing; 35 are unaccounted for.
Among them is their tutor, Brian Taylor, a man respected not just professionally, but personally too.
Rescuers continue to work through the rubble of the CTV building where more than 100 people are thought to have perished.
“He was like a father to them,” says Graeme Dodd of King’ Education School. “He was a highly respected man.”
Brian Taylor is Prue Taylor's husband of 43 years; she last saw him at 6pm on the morning of the quake and she says as long as they are searching, there is hope they will find him alive.
“I'm not going to say it's futile until the policeman knocks at the door,” she says.
The CTV building stood six storeys high, but after the quake, people on that sixth floor stepped out of the building, and on to the pavement.
There were survivors, but the mission is now one of recovery – all life extinguished.
There are still many students unaccounted for; 46 are confirmed missing but they simply don't know if another 35 were there or not.
The nature of foreign students means that contacting next of kin when all records were in this building is almost impossible.
“This isn't just a tragedy for New Zealand; this is a tragedy for the world. What do you do, what do you do?” Mr Dodd says.
Surviving students say they had a text message from a friend inside the rubble at 3am this morning – since then though, it's been quiet.
Hope is keeping many there sustained but that can't and won’t last forever.
Hope for the more than 200 still missing in Christchurch is fading fast.
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