£31.5mill for a primary school -- we must have money to burn or Aunty Rachel's new postal order has arrived.

I wonder what the cost would have been in 2015 or 2005 -- HS2 build economics have a lot to answer for.

Spend all that money on the school and then not be able to afford a librarian -- funny old world.

#1 The new Lornshill, Alva, and Alloa Academies, which opened in/around 2009 cost nearly £80 million - that's £123 million in today's money or £41 million each. The cost per student on those works out at ~£54k even with the savings made by undertaking design & construction together. The cost per student of the above is ~£63k. A 17% increase during a 16 year period where industry-wide costs have nearly doubled seems pretty good to me.

#2 - don't let facts get in the way of a good moan.

#2 -- absolute rubbish from an alleged finance operative.

You are talking secondary schools while this is a primary school.

2015 primary school build costs are in the range of £6mill to £9mill based on published UR numbers.

This is contractor greed / council waste in spades.
Poor quality big number politics with ego's being massaged to generate the ruinously high build costs.

Bellsmyre Primary - built in 2015 for £9.6 million (£13.2m today), accommodates 190 students, £69k per student.

Fort William Primary School, 2015, £10 Million (£13.4m today), 200 Students, £68k per student.

Campbelltown Grammar, 2016/17, £26 Million (£34m today), 500 students, £72k per student.

Lenzie Moss primary, 2016, £11.5 Million (£15.23m today), 280 students (at time of completion), £54k per student.

I could go on, but it sounds like you're out there building schools for half that price so it'd be a shame to waste any more of your precious time.

It's good to know that vastly overpriced public procurement is not a new thing.

#5
Look at you, thinking facts ever changed a numpty's opinion.

I wouldn't argue with FBOT's cost analysis. His take on George Square was uncanny as were his abilities in project programming.
I must confess that I hadn't realised he was also an expert in procurement of educational buildings. I guess when you have a polymath in your midst you should always defer.

#5 -- Forced / partial / slanted / selective.

Once you get past all those your analysis was right on the money -- not / repeat not / triple not.

Great selection of evidence -- great apart from the dozens you left out.

No engagement with the concept of economies of scale. No engagement with the cost differences between primary and secondary schools. No engagement with the challenges of a rural build vs central belt.

So -- after all that -- thanks for making my point for me in a fashion that I could never emulate.

£31.5 mill for a primary school is bonkers mental.
Contractor margin / local authority waste / civic ego / the curse of big number politics -- take your pick but it is all in there in spades.

You could even throw in concert parties and cover pricing as the £31.5mill number is so egregiously bloated it must / should have raised an eyebrow or two.

I wonder what the other quotes were and who put them in?

Also -- the Scottish local authority law of 3.

£10.5mill -- Party A.
£10.5mill -- Party B.
£10.5mill -- some stupid sod who gets their hands dirty.

It was a joke once on the BBC -- now I am not so sure / now it could be a fly on the wall documentary reality and not humour.

£7.7mill is now the magic number.

Repeat £7.7mill was the cost of the 2014 primary school used as a design reference for this build.

Link to deliver some background and some detail.

https://www.urbanrealm.com/news/4703/Lairdsland_Primary_pioneers_new_%E2%80%98reference%E2%80%99_school_design.html

Analysis akin to a doctoral thesis. We should be grateful for such insights. I know I am.

Ah of course, none of my seven examples are representative but your one - which still works out at ~£42k per student by the way - is the standard. A thousand apologies. We’ll be opening the FBOT primary for financial literacy any day now.