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Speaker 1: I think we've got good news. Antactic in New Zealand

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Speaker 1: has confirmed as planned for redeveloping Scott Base. This has

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Speaker 1: turned into a bit of a political issue with various

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Speaker 1: cost blowouts. So what's changed? The Antarctica board chair Leon

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Speaker 1: Grice is with us leam morning, Good morning mate. This

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Speaker 1: had for a while the inter Island the ferry about it.

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Speaker 1: Costs were going through the roof. What happened there?

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, building conation went up with cost controls,

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Speaker 2: women being focused on and and then you know the

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Speaker 2: methodology that was being used was just going to be

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Speaker 2: inherently expensive and also risky. So the board before me

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Speaker 2: in August put the project on pause and then I

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Speaker 2: came on to the board earlier this year with a

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Speaker 2: few other members of the board basically finished off the

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Speaker 2: job and got an independent reviewed to get it under control.

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Speaker 1: So what have you got now? Nineteen square meters with

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Speaker 1: no balcony.

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Speaker 2: No, but it won't be a Victorian's house over No.

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Speaker 2: We think that we can deliver exactly the same scope,

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Speaker 2: but more functional focused as opposed to design lead, and

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Speaker 2: we can refurbish a lot of the buildings like the

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Speaker 2: Hillary Field Center was refurbished in twenty sixteen. We think

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Speaker 2: we can extend that, devote that completely to science so

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Speaker 2: that the scientists get a facility for it that will

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Speaker 2: meet all their needs down there. And we think that

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Speaker 2: a mixture of building you and a mixture of a

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Speaker 2: refurbishment and a master plan will deliver us a very

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Speaker 2: cost effective way of going forward in a much lower

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Speaker 2: risk of delivery good.

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Speaker 1: Is Winston Peter still the chief architect here.

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Speaker 2: His brief was pretty simple, we'll just get it sorted,

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Speaker 2: and that was about and put as much pressure on

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Speaker 2: us as possible to get it good.

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Speaker 1: What's the time frame when's this thing sorted?

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Speaker 2: We've got about another year of detailed costing to work

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Speaker 2: on it, because we've got a translate the designs that

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Speaker 2: we've got into new modular formats that are easier to transport,

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Speaker 2: and then we've got to go through cabinets again. We've

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Speaker 2: got to get the money released because it's not you know,

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Speaker 2: it was taken back into the system as a tagged contingency.

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Speaker 2: So we've got a year of work to do that.

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Speaker 2: Our goal is that will be turning the key to

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Speaker 2: the new buildings and the refurbished buildings in twenty eight

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Speaker 2: twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: That season fantastic, Go well, I make appreciate your time,

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