Construction of Otago Polytechnic’s trades training centre will help generate the workforce to build the new Dunedin Hospital. Yesterday’s announcement that the Government will provide a $10million grant and an $18million loan means the planned training centre has cleared its largest hurdle and is almost certain to proceed. New Dunedin Hospital project chairman Pete Hodgson said peak building activity for the new hospital would be from 2024-27. An artist’s impression of Otago Polytechnic’s planned trades training centre to be built at the Forth St campus in Dunedin. "Our plan was to complete a range of projects prior to the Dunedin Hospital project commencing, to avoid peak resource demands.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 24, 2020 16:35 UTC