4.18 The Department is packaging the work required to remedy defects with the new facilities and to complete outstanding items, such as construction of the car parking facilities, into discrete contracts. Each contract is being tailored to the new facilities, and around the scientific research now being conducted within the modules. Some of the work will be specialised.
4.19 Taking these factors into consideration, the Department decided that appointing another contractor to manage and carry the construction risks would not be cost effective. Knowing that its project team had considerable knowledge of the new facilities and the skills to design solutions to correct the defects, the Department decided it should bear the remaining design and construction risks. However, since its project team lacked project management expertise, the Department appointed Bovis Lend Lease as project manager in June 2005, following a competition. The Department signed the first remedial works contract in August 2005. So far, the costs of the remedial works have been close to the Department's budget for the scheduled work, but the Department has yet to resolve completely the design of laboratories that meet the most stringent sub-audible noise requirements.