A Police investigation into the collapse of the CTV building is expected to be completed later this year. Any decision relating to prosecution will be made some time after that once a review of all the relevant information has been completed.
In September 2014 New Zealand Police announced that it would be advancing a criminal investigation after assessing a large amount of information regarding the collapse of the CTV building in February 2011.
Police also engaged the services of engineering consultants Beca to provide expert opinion to the investigation.
"Police have made steady progress with the investigation with a number of very technical, complex and time consuming inquiry streams being pursued." says Detective Superintendent Peter Read.
"The engineers' expert opinion is almost complete with some more computer modelling and structural tests yet to be completed.
"The results of these tests and the remainder of the investigation are not expected to be completed until later this year.
"Once the expert opinion has been completed there will be a full investigative review of all of the information gathered by Police, followed by a recommendation on any criminal liability.
"The recommendation will then be subject to legal reviews before a final decision is made by Police later in the year." said Detective Superintendent Read.
Media please note: Police will not be providing any interviews on this update.
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