Source: Radio New Zealand
Impression of how a revamped Scott Base might look. Antarctica NZ / supplied
Antarctica New Zealand says it is aiming to get its detailed business case to revamp Scott Base in front of Cabinet for approval in June.
This is about two years after the project was reset amid concerns over cost blowouts.
The agency said the first draft of the detailed business case was ready ahead of schedule in January and shared with agencies monitoring the job.
“The timeline has not slipped,” chief executive and chief science advisor Professor Jordy Hendrikx said in a statement.
Work on detailed designs and costs was carrying on ahead of the case going to Cabinet.
The latest Treasury report available on the project, from six months ago, rated it as ‘amber’ – in the mid-range, where red shows big problems and green is good – and said it was “moving at pace, but is sure-footed”.
The report mentioned “accelerated” arrangements for getting it built, with an end date put at December 2030.
The base project was among a dozen or so public projects rated “high profile, high risk”.
A $60 million wind farm upgrade had earlier been delayed by a few months.
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