Anecdotal, but when our local government does a project, they only look at the price tag. If they can afford it, it gets approved. Building something is very l

Anecdotal, but when our local government does a project, they only look at the price tag. If they can afford it, it gets approved. Building something is very labor intensive (the way we do it here in the US; the article talks about China and other ways of building) and the actual proposed budgets should be higher and timelines longer based on how we build. But in order to win a contract, the builder must lie and say "we can do it for this much and in this time frame," which tends to be lower than what we can actually realize.