Client settles with architect over spiralled project cost

11 Jan 2023

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Digital Edition: Client settles with architect over spiralled project cost

Standard Life Assurance has settled with architect Building Design Partnership (BDP) over the near-doubling of the cost of a scheme in Newbury, Berkshire. Costs on the project, which started in 2008 and completed in 2013, ballooned from an estimated Ā£85m to Ā£146m. The client had…

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