![]() News of the latest prompted an Icon spokesman to lay the blame on incomplete design documentation from the council that led to numerous variations and added costs.Ĭouncil engineers would once joke about the “effort heuristic”, a coded achievement among builders of civic monuments that the value of a project was enhanced by the longer it took to complete. The Sydney Opera House took 14 years to build after the first sod was turned but, as the Herald’s Sydney editor Michael Koziol noted when North Sydney announced another delay this year, the late unlamented Sydney Monorail, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Titanic all took less time than the pool to come to fruition.Ī report by independent consultants PwC predicted the final cost of the North Sydney pool at $89 million and was critical of the decision to have separate design and construct contracts, and the rush to sign a contract with construction company Icon. Work started in 2021 but the completion date kept inching into the future too 2022 became 2023 and then 2024 when the council promised last May that next April would be a goer. From there, the cost exploded first to $58 million and then $89 million. It didn’t, but in November 2017, the council passed a mayoral minute titled “Finally fix our pool”, setting the project in motion by committing to a design dubbed option two, for an estimated $28 million. The rebuild was mooted in 2015 when the council lobbied the then-Baird government during the state election campaign hoping the project had pork barrel potential. But the plan to overhaul the landmark has been mired in controversy over ballooning costs, delays and arguments about its scale, design and heritage impact. It was a new kind of civic, public building, both popular and cause for civic pride.
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