The designer of the CTV building which collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, killing 115 people, says he will forever be haunted by the tragedy but he did not cause it.
Dr Alan Reay was responding to Wednesday's decision by the Court of Appeal that disciplinary action can be taken against him by Engineering New Zealand.
Reay was the sole practitioner of his engineering firm which designed the Canterbury Television building in 1986.
But he was accused of letting inexperienced engineer David Harding do most of the structural design with minimal supervision.
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