With no expected completion date set, the board overseeing the construction of the new national children’s hospital has strongly criticised project developers BAM, citing a failure to meet various contractual obligations.
The hospital was originally slated to be completed in August 2022. As of June 2023, with 89 per cent of the site completed, BAM have made claims with a substantiated value of €756 million for work on the hospital.
Mr Gunning cites BAM’s monthly billing for work at the hospital in illustrating perceived low rates of productivity: “BAMs [sic] monthly billing currently should approximate to €15 million however, in the last number of months, they are below €10 million.” Further to that, per BAM’s project commitments, 3,000 rooms within the hospital complex should be complete by now. To date, however, only 27 rooms are deemed to be complete.
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