Firms tell MSPs that contractual rows meant part of Aberdeen bypass was shut for months, costing pair millions

By Will Ing2018-12-10T06:00:00

Balfour Beatty and Galliford Try say project’s contract runs to ‘thousands of pages’

The final stretch of road on the Aberdeen bypass will open this week despite having been finished in the summer – a delay which contractors Balfour Beatty and Galliford Try say has cost them £4m.

Stephen Tarr, managing director for major projects at Balfour Beatty, said the road had been physically complete since August but its opening had been held up by contractual wrangling.

It came as the pair revealed the scale of the utility diversions they were having to deal with, telling Scottish MSPs they were having to carry out so many that it has averaged one every 200m across the entire 58km length of the road.

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