Wairarapa District Health Board is taking legal action against Masterton District Council over its defective hospital buildings.
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The DHB is going to the High Court because it had to spend almost $1 million to fix faulty facilities that had been signed off by the council as safe.
The council said it denied liability because it relied upon the expertise of structural engineers.
The DHB said it had fixed the riskiest items, including restraining ceilings and plant, and a canopy roof connection to the main building at the front of the hospital.
"Remediation of the greatest-risk concerns is now completed," the DHB said in a statement.
It has also had to do work on the ambulance bay, glazed walkways and the cafe.
"No further remediation is planned at this time."
It would take significantly more work to make the buildings fully compliant to the New Building Standard for what is known as an importance level 4 building (IL4) which hospitals rate at due to their importance after a natural disaster.
"The total cost of that remediation, consultants/experts and consequential losses is as yet undetermined and would depend on the engineering design solutions selected," the board said.
The DHB previously refused RNZ's OIA requests for any review showing what went wrong with the build back in 2006, and who might be responsible.
