12 March 2021
The main contracting group building oil giant Shell’s Gangarri solar farm in Queensland has appointed its own subsidiary to continue work on the delayed project after the previous contractor, Davis Contracting, filed for administration following a dispute over payments.
The Electrical Trades Union, and smaller sub-contractors, blamed the problem on a dispute over payments between the main EPC contractor, the Indian-based Sterling and Wilson, and the Perth-based Davis Contracting.
The industry has been hit by a series of contracting disputes, cost over-runs and delays, leading to the collapse of some big contractors, and the exit of others, and disaster for smaller contractors, as we reported here: Hung out to dry: The dark side of big solar