Wellington City Council sets 'tight' timeframe for targeted assessments of 80 buildings

Wellington City Council sets 'tight' timeframe for targeted assessments of 80 buildings
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Dec. 20 (BusinessDesk) - Wellington City Council has set a "tight" timeframe for the owners of 80 buildings to carry out additional structural checks following the Kaikoura earthquake. The local authority has ordered owners of the buildings, which have similar characteristics to Statistics House on the Wellington waterfront that suffered damage and has been empty since the quake, to carry out more thorough checking by Feb. 10. The city used powers granted by legislation passed in Parliament under urgency in response to the...