Auditor general finds costs for two departments’ projects blew out by $127m and led to delays of up to four months
The Department of Education’s projects for the Brisbane South State Secondary College and Fortitude Valley State Secondary College were among those probed.About $7.3m of those changes were because the project team did not conduct detailed flood or fire modelling in Fortitude Valley, so stakeholders could not assess the risks until construction was under way.
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