He said during his time on the global group management team (the GMT) they discussed reports that the cladding had weathertightness issues in New Zealand. ![]() "I remember thinking that I would not buy a house built with that system." "I remember thinking it would need to be tested fully and installed to exacting standards, otherwise there would be potential for water ingress and potential failure," Bridges said. He told the High Court at Auckland he thought from early on that there was a risk the Harditex cladding would leak. That cladding is now at the centre of a $220 million court case alleging it did in fact leak and the James Hardie companies knew this and kept selling it.īradley Bridges was on James Hardie's global group management team in California in the 1990s and 2000. ![]() The court case is unfolding at the High Court in Auckland.
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