Council and Stadium Trust to work together to rebuild Stadium Southland

20 SEPTEMBER, 2010

Invercargill City Council and Stadium Southland Trust will work together to rebuild the Stadium Southland following the devastating events of the weekend.

Mayor Tim Shadbolt said Council met representatives of the Southland Indoor Leisure Centre Charitable Trust today to go over the issues regarding the collapse of the roof on Saturday due to an extreme dumping of snow, including looking through all the Council files regarding the building of the stadium.

Mayor Shadbolt said the Trust had elected Chairman Acton Smith to be the spokesperson regarding the stadium’s structural engineering issues and Stadium Southland General Manager Nigel Skelt regarding stadium operations.

“Acton has informed us that a thorough, independent structural engineering review by Invercargill engineer Graham Cole will be undertaken during the coming weeks to ascertain the cause of the roof collapse and it will be some time before we know the cause.”

Mayor Shadbolt said Council staff informed those attending the meeting that when the stadium construction was completed it was given a code compliance to the building code standard at that time.

“Council’s focus is on rebuilding the stadium," the Mayor said. "This is the home of our Southern Steel and Southland Sharks and is a much-loved facility in our community.”

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