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Inquiry into public sector building costs

Language: English Series: Financial Times ; 12 September 1994, 16 | Daily Telegraph ; 13 September 1994, 5 | RICS Press Release ; (PR149/94cons) 13 September 1994 | Cabinet Office News Release ; (OPSS 161/94) 13 September 1994 (8)Publication details: 1994Subject(s): Summary: The government is to announce a wide-ranging inquiry into construction ordering by government departments and agencies after a series of Whitehall building scandals such as the British Library, where the first phase cost more than double the original estimate.

The government is to announce a wide-ranging inquiry into construction ordering by government departments and agencies after a series of Whitehall building scandals such as the British Library, where the first phase cost more than double the original estimate.