Inappropriate Management Cited on Costly Scottish Job.

Inappropriate management and change orders at Scotland's new parliament building project contributed to a 20-month delay and a 122% cost hike, according to the Scottish auditor general. Inappropriate management and change orders at Scotland's new parliament building project contributed to a 20-month delay and a 122% cost hike, according to the Scottish auditor general. Planned by the British government before Scotland's parliament was created in 1999, the 33,000 sq meters of offices and chambers are spread in four-to six-story linked buildings, dominated by a cluster of boat shapes with stainless steel roofs. Early cost hikes and delays followed big square footage increases as the building's use became better defined.