4-year-old state hospital building rife with defects

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4-year-old state hospital building rife with defects

Hawaii taxpayers may be coughing up $35 million or more to fix a state hospital building that a private contractor designed and built for $160 million four years ago. The state Department of Health is seeking $35 million from the Legislature for emergency and longer-­term repairs to the high-security facility for 144 acute psychiatric patients on the Hawaii State Hospital campus in Kaneohe. The agency also is requesting $2 million to pay legal e…