£300,000 over budget on Guild Build Phase 3 – Exposed

Unofficial Guild can exclusively reveal that in high-level meetings last week between Guild Management and Sabbs, the shocking bombshell was dropped by contractors as they explained that the building work was due to come in £300,000 over budget. The multi-million pound redevelopment of the Guild building has suffered many minor hiccups already but surely some heads have to roll for this utter cock-up.

Senior staff at the Guild are reportedly taking home salaries nicely approaching six figures, yet the main project under their stewardship is now potentially not financeable and significant corners will have to be cut, ultimately hitting students where it matters most by reducing the provision of, and facilities for, membership services.

Builders abandoned their tools at the start of freshers week and were due to recommenced building work on 28th September. However, budget blunders have meant that no builders have as yet returned to the project and are not expected to be back till early November at the very earliest.

The new bar area, located above the Underground club, is the current work that is causing the problems, and it is certain that the opening date of February 2010 is now impossible to achieve. Student Development, the heart of the Guild’s membership services is set to move upstairs into where Joe’s currently resides, yet this is now not set to happen until Easter.

Unofficial Guild would like to thank our two anonymous whistleblowers for this scoop. Let’s hope someone can get their act together and actually deliver the promises for a fresh, innovative and responsive Guild building that have been so forcibly made to all Birmingham students over the past 18 months.

Unofficial Guild would welcome any voice of Guild authority to clarify what the hell is going on and be frank and up front with its members. Emailed explains to UnofficialGuild@ymail.com will be published on this blog with absolutely no editing.