Hamilton’s stadium is supposed to be done by the end of January, but the city’s head of public works says he doubts that will happen.

Gerry Davis told the city’s public works committee on Monday that it will probably be the end of February before the new $145-million Tim Hortons Field is substantially completed. It’s the latest in a series of exasperating missed deadlines for a project that was supposed to be finished last June.

“When you go by the stadium, it looks done,” Davis told CBC Hamilton. “But it’s the stuff inside that still isn’t finished.”

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) is building the stadium, which cost Hamilton about $40 million. It’s home base for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and will also host the soccer games for the 2015 Pan Am Games. IO hired Ontario Sports Solutions, a construction consortium, to build the stadium.

Davis gets weekly updates from IO on the project. He hasn’t received official word that it won’t be finished by Jan. 31. But there are “over 100 non-compliant items” remaining, he said. The elevators haven’t been approved. There are still mechanical, electrical and structural items to do. The heating, air conditioning and ventilation is unfinished.

“People say ‘We had six games there. What’s the problem?’” he said. But “there are so many things left to be done.”

Initially, crews were supposed to finish the stadium by June 30. It wasn’t finished throughout the summer, so the Ticats played their home games at McMaster University’s Ron Joyce stadium. It was finished enough for the CFL team to play its Labour Day Classic there and the rest of its home games through the fall.

The city takes possession of the stadium when it is substantially completed.

The province will control the parking and shuttle bus activity for the Pan Am Games in July, said Coun. Lloyd Ferguson of Ancaster, who chairs the Pan Am subcommittee. Given how the construction has gone, “that worries me.

“They took away the construction of the stadium and screwed it up,” he said. “It would be horrible if they screwed up the shuttles and the parking. This is Hamilton’s chance for a first impression.”