How much did The Scalpel cost to build?
The Scalpel, at 52 Lime Street in the City of London, is a 190 m skyscraper designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates for the insurer W. R. Berkley as its European headquarters, with an offset core giving large column-free floors, BREEAM Excellent certification and a public plaza at its base, built by Skanska for the client WRBC Development UK Ltd. Skanska began work in 2015 and handed it over three years later, in September 2018. The cost of GBP 500 million appears in Wikipedia and its infobox and could not be checked against a developer or contractor statement.
Reported project cost
£500 million
Approximately $667.08 million
Cost basis: 2018
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Reported project cost2018
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Key dimensions
- HeightNew London Architecture
- 190 m
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