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Maybe it is caused by rising standards and rising human labor costs? There are many stories where rebuilding or just renovation of a bridge was vastly more exp
by matkoniecz 5y ago
Maybe it is caused by rising standards and rising human labor costs?
There are many stories where rebuilding or just renovation of a bridge was vastly more expensive than constructing it 50 or 100 years ago (yes, obviously after adjusting for inflation).
- trhway 5y agoAlso include the "management/administrative tax" - these days mid-management is much thicker and consumes and wastes tremendously more resources.
- acdha 5y agoNot just “mid-management” but subcontracting. This is especially bad in government projects because you have challenges around selecting bidders fairly and if you don’t have enough civil servants doing the same jobs at similar pay it can be hard to have people on the government side who are capable of adequately overseeing a project of that scale. If you end up hiring multiple contractors, you’re guaranteeing a lot of overhead even if it goes well and plenty of chances for a 3+ way blame-shifting exercise if it doesn’t.
- m0llusk 5y agoNo, that is only true when focusing on large infrastructure items like bridges and the really scary numbers only show up when bizarre outliers like the NYC Second Avenue subway are included.
- KptMarchewa 5y agoConstruction is the only sector where real productivity decreased. https://www.curt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Productivity-Change-1950-2012.jpg https://www.curt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Productivity...