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Originally Posted by Delgar
The West LRT expansion was hugely off budget. This one will be too. It doesn't matter what it "should" cost or how close the city "should" be as the project starts, the fact is, they're going to go way over budget. Anyone suggesting otherwise hasn't watched the history of public projects in Calgary.
Here's one article, about the West LRT.
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-co...ning-to-others
EDIT: And GGG, "Plus/Minus 30%" or "10%"? That's ridiculous. There is no possible way they come under budget. Its always more. |
I would disagree. If you fix scope early and kick the client off of the project day one and actually build it to specs as specified today you have an equally good chance of being below or over budget. The problem is everyone working on the project will slowly add things that they feel add value and slowly the costs go up.
This projects over runs will be on station design and increasing the underground scopes and traffic separation scopes. It's rare that these over runs aren't self inflicted.