Balfour Beatty has blamed offer chain disorders and the pandemic for a prolong to its £25.7m refurbishment work at a Victorian park in Aberdeen.

The contractor used to be because of total a section of the Union Terrace Gardens for a soft opening on Tuesday this week, nonetheless the match used to be known as off by the client, Aberdeen Metropolis Council, on the advice of the building company.

A Balfour Beatty spokesperson explained: “Exterior factors akin to COVID-19 and, extra now not too prolonged ago, cloth offer disorders proceed to disrupt building initiatives at some level of the UK. As we switch in opposition to the anticipated completion of Union Terrace Gardens this summer season, we proceed to work with our offer chain to minimise these outcomes.”

The tier one contractor used to be appointed to the job in April 2019. The list of works incorporated the building of three pavilions; the addition of an accessible walkway; refurbishment of the Victorian arches and bathroom; building of a brand unusual entrance; improved parking facilities; and repurposed match spaces. Balfour Beatty used to be also tasked with reinstating a historical ‘huge staircase’, as fragment of a brand unusual accessible route.

Council chief executive Angela Scott stated close to the soft opening: “The council is clearly upset that the match can’t mosey forward, nonetheless we in finding forward to the stout opening in due course.”

The completion date to your entire redevelopment used to be at the beginning space for summer season 2021, nonetheless has since been postponed.

In a range of areas within the change, shortages of offers and labour bear resulted in numerous delays and price hikes on building initiatives in most neatly-liked months. Remaining month, Kier announced that it used to be making ready a contingency design in case of a prolong on a £15m school bear for the Highland Council.