Polly Murray, a PhD student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, presented her research on modeling of a ductile reinforced concrete building damaged in the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake to the QuakeCoRE Emerging Researchers Auckland chapter meeting in Auckland, New Zealand. In an effort to understand the performance of ductile RC buildings during seismic events, a 3D nonlinear model was developed to run dynamic analysis. This research aims to compare predicted strength to observed damage, and assess modifications that could improve performance during future seismic events. Laboratory testing of extracted beam-column joints will offer further insight to the extent of building damage.