Mayor's Gala (new Surrey City Hall)

Question 1

How did the new Surrey City Hall get built (contractually)?

Answer 1

• PCL originally planned to sign $70 million contract in 2011 for complete the city hall
• Surrey changed the plan and instead a smaller contract was signed for PCL to complete a parkade and geo-exchange facility
• Surrey got PCL to complete the rest of the project using change orders

Question 2

Why did PCL file claims at the end of the project?

Answer 2

• PCL claimed Surrey was liable for millions made in claims against PCL by subs
• PCL completed over 360k in unpaid gala prep work

Question 3

What did Surrey say in its counter-claim against PCL?

Answer 3

• PCL did negligent work and failed to meet milestone events in schedule
• Any loss or damage subs suffered was due solely to failures of PCL or themselves
• PCL owed city in damages for constructing deficient and incomplete geo-exchange system
• PCL deprived Surrey from being able to mitigate gala costs since it repsented to city on several occasions that the gala need not to be rescheduled

Question 4

What was the end result (at the end of the news article)?

Answer 4

Surrey and PCL were trying to reach an out-of-court settlement

Question 5

What could have been done better to prevent this fiasco?

Answer 5

your answer