Replacing cladding at the Adelaide Convention Centre continued to be discussed by senior staff at a fire engineering firm months after the Government ruled it out, emails obtained by the ABC show.
Senior staff at the company responsible for fire engineering on the Adelaide Convention Centre discussed the possibility of replacing combustible cladding panels on the building, months after the South Australian Government suggested replacement was unnecessary.
Internal emails, obtained by the ABC, show executives at multinational engineering firm Aurecon also discussed how the cladding issue would affect the company's reputation with the Government as it bid for future work.The emails date from November last year, after Aurecon had been engaged to undertake a so-called"facade combustibility investigation" on the convention centre, on North Terrace in the CBD.
Amid discussion of what steps should be taken, one staff member raised the possibility of replacing cladding panels. "If recladding is all we can do then we report that. If we can be smarter, let's be smarter," the senior employee told colleagues. "By no means we should be negligent in our advice but we need to be innovative and cutting-edge and certainly not conservative in our approach.""We're working with them on the business case for the new multipurpose arena … we're targeting lead consulting and total engineering," he said."Massive problem if we re-clad … surely there are other options … this will hurt our brand significantly across government," the employee email read.
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