An Australian-owned plumbing company that botched work at a new Christchurch Hospital building owes a significant amount of money for contractual breaches. New Zealand law prevents undischarged bankrupts, and people banned from running companies overseas, from being a director of a New Zealand company. JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFF The new acute services building at Christchurch Hospital, now known as Christchurch Hospital Hagley, was due for completion in 2019. Earlier that year, a related company they controlled in Australia, PHP Contractors, was placed into liquidation owing millions of dollars. The Christchurch Hospital Hagley building was built at a cost of around $500m and originally meant to be finished in 2018.

Source: Stuff February 09, 2020 02:48 UTC