Client queries '£1bn cost'claim on Aberdeen road

摘要

The client Balfour Beatty and Galliford Try say owes them "hundreds of millions" of pounds for work on a problem road job in Aberdeen has said the pair have done nothing to prove it owes the two anywhere near that figure, write Jordan Marshall and Dave Rogers. The scheme, known as the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, was finally fully opened in February - more than a year late. Last week Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn said the joint venture, known as Aberdeen Roads Limited, was owed "hundreds of millions" and added: "The job was sold for £530m but has cost over £lbn to deliver." He said the joint venture had been forced to shoulder around £500m in extra costs.