Renovations at the Biodôme de Montréal are going to cost the City significantly more than originally expected.
The price tag has jumped by more than $3.7 million in order to complete the project and it is behind schedule, which has also forced a delay in reopening of the facility.
The final cost is now set at $27.8 million, not the $24.6 million that bureaucrats and elected officials budgeted. Officials say that demolition work revealed structural and other challenges that weren't found during exhaustive surveys and exploratorations before the work got under way.
The project's complexity needs more coordination at the site this year, say bureaucrats. As a result, the city has increased monitoring of the Biodome project for an additional $450,000, included in the overall cost overrun of the worlk.
The Biodome has been closed since April of last year and is expected to reopen at the end of this summer.