How much would it cost to build Hadrian's Wall today? Hadrian’s Wall Heritage asked construction company Carillion to come up with a figure:
Carillion considers that building a new Wall would involve using nearly 4 million tonnes of material and the total cost would be in the order of £300m to £400m. A spokesperson from Carillion said: “This is just a very rough estimation but broadly speaking, sourcing and distributing the vast quantities of stone that would be needed would be just one of the challenges in carrying out this project.
“Obtaining planning permission and getting the necessary finance would be challenging. Significant modern day environmental and ecological issues associated with a project of this scale would probably prevent it ever happening at all.
Both the North West Evening Mail and The Journal carry the story. It is a nice stunt, but I don't believe a word of it. It being Hadrian's Wall Heritage, the press release is impossible to get hold of, but the figure is considerably lower than that needed. It would be an interesting exercise to do properly.
Hey, it would be a government contract! The estimates for those are always fantasy. Multiply by 100, I would guess.
I wonder if anyone pestered Hadrian about the "human rights" of the Picts?
Posted by: Roger Pearse | May 28, 2009 at 03:16 PM