Rift widens between board overseeing project and builder as minutes reveal May 2024 completion deadline may be missed
The meeting heard that Kroll’s engagement was critical to helping them forecast an accurate timeline for completion of the work “in the absence of a compliant programme from BAM”. A construction company spokesman said the firm “has fully engaged with the board and its advisers throughout the new children’s hospital project and will continue to do so in order to deliver a world-class facility for Ireland as quickly as possible”.
It comes as a 2020 case brought by the development board of the new children’s hospital against contractor BAM Buildings Ltd yesterday re-entered the Commercial Court after “thousands of hours” of discussions failed to achieve a settlement. An Oireachtas committee was told earlier this month that the cost of the National Children’s Hospital could surpass €2 billion, while just 27 rooms have been completed out of an expected 3,000.
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