Construction company’s problems leave question mark over airport project
The upgrade currently underway at Hawke’s Bay Airport will be affected by yesterday’s building industry bombshell announcement that major construction company Arrow International had gone into voluntary administration.
Christchurch-based Arrow has been carrying out the multi-million-dollar upgrade at the airport but its subcontractors walked away from the project yesterday following the news it had gone into administration.
The airport’s new arrivals hall opened in January.
Radio New Zealand reported this morning that the situation at the airport was now unclear.
The airport’s operations manager, Dean Smith, told RNZ said they had not heard from Arrow yet, and until they did would not say what their plans were.
Stage one of the airport’s $20.2 million redevelopment – including a new arrivals hall – opened in January and Stage two of the project is already “well underway”.
