Public Construction · Cost & Delay Tracker

Where the bodies are buried.

A public record of budget overruns and schedule delays in Finnish, Nordic, and European public construction projects. Data sourced from public procurement records, official audit reports, and credible published reporting.

Figures marked est. are conservative estimates from incomplete public information. Submit corrections at the bottom of the page — every entry is reviewed.

Scope:
Verified — primary source Reported — credible reporting Estimated — partial information Marker size ∝ overrun amount
Confidence:
Project▼ Type▼ Location▼ Original▼ Final / current▼ Overrun▼ Delay▼ Status▼ Confidence▼

Where the data comes from

Project entries are compiled from publicly available sources: HILMA (Finland's public procurement database), official audit reports, parliamentary inquiries, project owner annual reports, and credible news reporting (YLE, HS, Rakennuslehti, FT, Reuters, and the major Nordic outlets). Every entry has a source label visible when you expand the row.

What the confidence levels mean

  • Verified — figures sourced from primary documents (audits, project owner statements, official inquiries). The numbers are as authoritative as is publicly possible.
  • Reported — figures cited in credible news reporting, used when audits aren't yet published or the project is ongoing. Numbers may shift as final figures emerge.
  • Estimated — conservative estimates derived from partial public information. Always shown with an "est." prefix and a range in the project summary. Submit a correction if you have better numbers.

What we deliberately don't include

  • Privately financed projects where overrun figures aren't part of the public record.
  • Specific euro figures we cannot trace back to a citable source — we'd rather mark a row "Estimated" than fabricate a number.
  • Projects where the cost increase reflects scope expansion approved through democratic process rather than execution failure (where this is documented, we say so in the summary).

Why we built this

White Hat IQ builds AI tools for construction project management. The single biggest pattern we see is that most schedule slips and cost overruns are visible months earlier than the firm internally acknowledges — buried in unread contract clauses, missed notice periods, and undocumented delay events. This tracker exists to make the macro version of that pattern visible. If you're tired of seeing your own project's name on lists like this, we should talk.

Submit a project · Suggest a correction

Know of a project that should be on this list?

We update this tracker continuously with public-record data on construction overruns and delays across Finland, the Nordics, and Europe. If you have a project to submit — or a correction to an existing entry — send it our way. Every submission is reviewed by the founder.

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