Top building firm Built is on the hook for up to $220 million over prefabricated cells it supplied to a Victorian jail that were riddled with rust and black mould, under a prison extension program that has to date delivered just one-fifth of the planned number of new beds.
Privately owned Built was the construction contractor for a program to add 212 new beds in two new blocks to the maximum-security Metropolitan Remand Centre, but defects have left the modular prison cells installed on site vacant despite completion scheduled almost three years ago.
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This article has been amended to make clear that liability has not yet been determined.
