Business of Blowouts: Calamities, covid, costs hit convention centre projects

Business of Blowouts: Calamities, covid, costs hit convention centre projects
The SkyCity International Convention Centre has been beset with delays. (Image: NZME)
Brent Melville
BusinessDesk's research into infrastructure cost blowouts found civic assets such as libraries, sport centres and function venues tended not to overrun their budgets as often as other categories, such as roads, for example. However, the data was based on completed projects only, and did not include Auckland's SkyCity International Convention Centre, which has been dogged by delays. SkyCity Entertainment is sticking to its $750 million forecast by completion date in 2025, although Fletcher Buliding said last December it had pro...

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