Time and Time again, we often hear about and see news about various projects that are getting taken on … often with outrageous price tags attached to them. Most of the time, the price tag is mentioned merely as a footnote to the project or touted as the headline about how grand the project actually is.

At the more local level, a 6.4km stretch of road comes in at a hefty $156 Million (AUD) … $24 Million per kilometre. When we get to other or more exotic projects, the costs are just as impressive.