Phil Pennington

Building contractors under immense pressure are taking shortcuts and not putting critical structural parts into buildings properly, if at all. This evidence comes from a concrete scanning company that… Audio

A Melbourne man is fighting to hold the Catholic church accountable for three clerics and a teacher who sexually violated him as a boy in Otago. Marc - RNZ won't use his surname - has come back to New… Audio

Mistakes by contractors put fire sprinklers and alarms out of action at one of the country's biggest high schools. 2000 students go to Cashmere High School in Christchurch where classrooms were left… Audio

Investigations into faulty fire protection systems at a Christchurch school found contractors solved problems of false alarms by disconnecting more than 300 smoke detectors and alarm switches. That… Audio

Pressure on the country's quarries has sparked warnings that road workers and construction companies may be forced to import heaps of gravel and crushed stone known as aggregate. Phil Pennington… Audio

Texts the Hutt City Council told RNZ did not exist about a retirement complex's seriously bad plumbing were in fact sent to the mayor who deleted them. A plumber also sent Mayor Ray Wallace nine… Audio

A plastic surgeon is warning public hospital payroll systems are full of errors that are costing staff dearly and fostering resentment. Act. Barnaby Nye divides his time between private practice and… Audio

A plume of contaminants from firefighting foam under Ohakea air base in Manawatu will keep spreading in the water table for up to 125 years. Phil Pennington has been looking at new reports which… Audio

Major public agencies are beginning to look at the financial viability of the builders they use, as the toll rises from failing construction companies. The Government is also trying to impose smarter… Audio

Emails show the mayor of Lower Hutt was told in February that bad plumbing in a retirement complex was 'life-threatening'. All 96 apartments, worth up to 700 thousand dollars each, at the Masonic… Audio

A Lower Hutt retirement complex is in damage control after bad plumbing left elderly residents exposed to noxious sewer gases and bacteria build-up in all the showers. Plumbing investigators alerted… Audio

Staff working in operating theatres at Waikato Hospital cannot hear fire alarms and are getting confused evacuation warnings. The significant weaknesses in the alarm system go back at least eight… Audio

The Transport Agency is in talks with Google about a breach of data storage after a bungle by its rogue and now-defunct high-tech unit. The agency says the mistake - leaving a data key wide open for… Audio