OZschwitz: The soaring costs of building Rudd's 'education revolution'

BUILDERS' mark-ups, management fees and multi-layered bureaucracy are hugely inflating the cost of work under the Building the Education Revolution program, critics say.

Parents and principals have raised concerns that some projects are costing up to 10 times more than regular construction.

Quantity surveyors say a quality one- or two-level commercial building would cost about $2100 a square metre.

At Orange Grove Public School, in Lilyfield, a 25-square-metre canteen is being built for $550,000, or $22,000 a square metre.

Kangaroo Valley Public School has received a 169-square-metre library for $850,000, or $5029 a square metre, and Berridale Public School in the Southern Highlands received a quote for a prefabricated library also amounting to $850,000, or $5660 a square metre.

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OZschwitz: The soaring costs of building Rudd's 'education revolution'

OZschwitz: The soaring costs of building Rudd's 'education revolution'

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