Germany: - elbphilharmonie hamburg - Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg and many more: You can read an english article about that here: http://www.spiegel.de/inte

Germany: - elbphilharmonie hamburg - Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg and many more: You can read an english article about that here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/disastrous-public-works-projects-in-germany-a-876856.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/disastrous-publ... Most of these desasters are caused by underbidding and then the company buys in personal that isn't trained for the job. The company fails, the prise rises (mostly higher than other offers) actually this gives a bad reputation to the building industry. Also in germany many more projects failed, and the politcs removed a lot of stuff that untrained people could raise a building company. like the "master"-title need that was completly removed (in most handcraft work) and the quality suffered. another reason why quality suffers is also of course that there are more materials and the stuff gets more complex due to more safety restrictions, this also means that its no longer possible that a single person could understand the process as a whole. you often also see that in minor vehicle repair shop even the one's from the car vendor, most of the time the bigger problems can't be solved by them and the car needs directly go back to the vendor company. this wasn't true a while ago, so the reasons why quality suffered are mostly: - complexity - less trained people - less trained supervisory - rush for the smallest possible price Germany and public projects are a extreme example if all 4 things of the above are true. P.S.: These things do happen for technology projects, too in germany.