The Dunedin City Council says it remains confident the Wall Street mall is safe, despite fresh tests after another glass failure in the council-owned building. Council contractors yesterday completed tests of the glass ceiling panels to check the integrity of a protective film added to the ceiling in 2012. In a second incident in 2015, a 6m by 3m decorative glass panel on the building's facade split into two pieces which fell, minutes apart, on to a veranda below. The glass panel had also ''shattered into small pieces'' and fallen on to the entrance veranda below. No-one was affected, but the incident prompted Dr McElhone to review previous work on the building's glass, she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 27, 2018 16:07 UTC