HIGHEST COST OVERRUNS

Ecole Champs Vallee new build, Beaumont

Cost to date: $19.3 million, 23 per cent over-budget

Alberta School for the Deaf modernization, Edmonton Cost to date: $37.5 million, 21 per cent over-budget

St. John Paul II new build, Medicine Hat

Cost to date: $9.8 million, 16 per cent over-budget (solar panels added)

Archbishop O’Leary High modernization, Edmonton Cost to date: $27.4 million, 14 per cent over-budget

Fireside School new build, Cochrane

Cost to date: $17.8 million, 13 per cent over-budget

“If we’d had to rush through, or if we’d had to follow a cookie-cutter approach, we would have missed out on that,” he said.