MCI – winning project for a new, more expensive building than expected – Innsbruck

The construction of the new MCI was stopped because a cost increase of 70% is expected. Now, there should be new competition. In this context, Evelyn Achhorner refers to the quality of the other projects in the 2016 competition.

TYROL. After an architectural competition for the new MCI building in 2016, a winning project was launched. The budget for the Naubau was 80 million euros. Currently, construction costs amount to 135 million euros. Now the beginning of construction is delayed.

The maximum cost limit can not be reached

The new building of the MCI (University of Applied Sciences Innsbruck) was estimated at 80 million euros. Now the cost is 135 million. The badysis of the winning project of the architecture contest now shows that the maximum cost limit can not be reached. "A cost increase of 70% is unacceptable, so we press the" pause "button of the" new MCI "project and aim for a restart," explains the structural engineer Johannes Tratter . The architecture contest will be announced again.

The beginning of construction is delayed

A new architectural competition is now delaying the start of construction – the start of construction would have been the spring of 2018. However, the government of the state Tyrol is committed to building the MCI at the Sowi site in Innsbruck. Already in 2017, there would have been the first signs of an increase in costs. For this reason, the possible reduction in volume (volume of the structure) has been examined. But despite a reduction in construction volume, the cost would rise to more than 130 million. The construction time is better than an explosion of costs, according to Johannes Tratter. "We owe it to the people to handle tax money carefully."

Renewal of Costs of a Call for Tenders

According to MP FPÖ Evelyn Achhorner a new call for tenders is also badociated with the costs. He would prefer to review the eight best projects of the 2016 competition for efficiency and effectiveness. At that time, for example, the Henke Schreieck project was preferred by some experts. The fact is that construction costs have increased by almost 30% in recent years, while the construction industry in Austria is booming and that it would be possible to re-examine other projects in order to reduce costs for new competition.

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