busted budgets

Last week we (as well as many other blogs and news outlets) posted about how The World Trade Center Transportation Hub project was dramatically over-budget. Construction projects rife with cost overruns are not

At its completion in March of 2014, the Budapest Metro Line 4 was two years past deadline and 4.5 times over-budget. On opening day, Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, joked about the

It has gotten pretty scary cold here in New York City and as we dream of warmer weather we’d like to share this seriously scary budget with you. The Brazil World Cup

Happy Halloween! Here’s something scary: the Scottish Parliament Building was 935% over budget and 3 years past its 2001 deadline. So as the Scots would say, “keep the heid!” (“don’t lose

The construction of the most famous and advanced research laboratory orbiting planet earth was indeed a historical success but was 186% over-budget. There were so many project delays that the 16 countries involved

We feel that our second post in the Busted Budgets series is especially appropriate because BuildingBlok calls New York City home! The Empire State Building was built in one year, from 1930 to

We are beginning our new series titled “Busted Budgets” with a bang! The Montreal Olympic Stadium was 1990% over budget. The stadium originally called the “Big O” was re-nicknamed the “Big Owe” due