Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

., ~- The Courier-Mail 9 November 1982 ow over who will finish art complex By JACK LUNN and PETER MORL~ THE State Govemment Work• Depart• ment and bulldlng contractora Barclay Bro,. are fighting over who wlll com• pl1te the performing 1rt1 complex In OUNnatand'• Cultural Centre. The Works Depart- included the S6 million mcnt hu reportedly told Marccba Hospital, . Barclay that it would or- S4,500,000 of work on . !Jlnisc completion of the the South East Frecway, interior work itaclf be- tbcS7,750,000Houghton cause of aubstantially in• Highway (beside the created COits. Homibrook Highway). It And Barclay Broa. re- aaid tbc S17 million plied by sayin&-tliat this Cairns Bue Hoapital wu would constitu-_a ..fun- on time and within budg~ clamcntal breach ol con• ft for a January 1984 tract". It says it is consid- 0,0111j,letj~. =~ Supreme Courtac- · ·•Hampered' ~relay Broa. b~ allo The. C9ffipany ar,uc4 ob~cd on •h• Jround that tbc inability o tbo tbat if the work II CODI• ~::i~• ecpar.tmen~ to plctcd by O~vern~ent : tormatlon·and worker,, it as a direct design 'dl'lwiiip on time Gomnmcn! threat to the bad biunpcted at, and said free entcrpnsc system. that poaeaion ofsite was Tbr arguments arc put not available on the apcci– forward in a len,tby let- fied date. ter aent by Barclay t.o all It said thtre had been a Q~e~nsland Cabinet dclayofayearinatle5st M1n11tcrs. The letter, oneconstructhn program which ~u being dis- from the department. cu11ed an Government The ~10n which the c_irclcs yesterday, wa.s Works t>cpartment 11gned by managing d1- wanti to take over itaclf is r1'Ctor, Mr C.I. Barclay. the "auditoria lntcrion" Coat fear :, t~: 11 ~rforming arts The State-,Govemment The Barclay letter queriet the has been 'anxious to avoid department's eatlmatc of $5 mil– a.notber "Sydney Opera lion to eotnplete this section. Houae" with its huge cost "A1..11p:rienced operators in over-runs and time de- this flefd, we submit our price of la~.~d while the cost in- S6,641,525 i1 economically le• •~nsible. We stand ready to JUS;., creases do not appear to tif y it and ask to be given the have been large an this chance to do.10," the letter said. South dank project, the The letter ilao pointed out that time delay is e11tcnsivc. the Works Department's original The contract, signed in &11limatc of S3 million for restor•.: · November, 1979, was tion and renovation of the originally for almost Queensland Parliament building,' S24,500,000. The con- which it carried out, rose to a re- tract was to be finished ported S16 million. , . early this year. Barclay aaid loss of the contract The new antic:pated would force the company to re• price is S3S million. The view its workforce. time of completion is now • ABarclay 1pokcsman said yes– cx pcctcd to be early tuday that the Government ·was 1984. · its client at the moment and he But Barclay points ·out, could not uy cuctly.~hlli.,~•s it has completed a1u~ happening. He was waiting to see sion of major works on or · what eventuated. ahcadofttmcandwithin' · The: Works Minister., Mr budget in the past. These arton, said laat night no n'love d been made to terlJ'!lnatc t~c ------- I 1 I Barclay contract for. constnactlon of the performing arta coro~. • "There have been discua,ions' between the company and my d partmcnt on the coat of coinplet•· mg the auditoria intc:rion of tb building," he said. . . "These items are provlaion,t sums for work to be done by nomi natcd sub-contracton. ·:~. "The. cost proposal• put rer~ waJd by the company for this titSh or the project arc una able. However, the door 11 • for further di1cu11ions with ,4 company on the matter and 1· · bt inviting them to hold furfbci talks." Mr Wharton said that wliili evv the.outcome, there was · ft ~uggcstion that the work olf '.tb area of the project would be ea ricd out by departmental day la• bor. "This is work ·vbicb will be CV• ricd out by construction manag ment using private entcrpriao 1ub– contracton," t!{r W~,nog aa,i4! _, : I • 1/ \ , •