Good Office Design

3.0Cost

View of Interior, Fort Dunlop, Birmingham.

© Daniel Hopkinson Photography

SINCE 2002 THE AVERAGE COST OF A BUILDING PROJECT SUBMITTED FOR A BCO AWARD HAS BEEN AROUND £14 MILLION (£14.2 M IN THE PERIOD 2002–04; £12.8 M IN 2007; £13.8 M IN 2008). THE YEAR 2005 SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN AN ABERRATION WHEN THE AVERAGE PROJECT CAME IN AT £22.5 MILLION. ‘THIS SHOWS THE LEVEL OF COMMITMENT WHICH THESE CLIENTS, PARTICULARLY THE PRIVATE CLIENTS, ARE PUTTING INTO THE FACILITY THEY ARE PROVIDING FOR THEIR STAFF TO WORK WITHIN,’ SAID DAVIS LANGDON, WHICH HAS ANALYSED ALL SUBMISSIONS OVER THIS PERIOD. HOWEVER, DL WARNS, ‘THESE FIGURES SHOULD NOT BE ...