Why does it take so much longer to build in the US compared to 50+ years ago?

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It took a year to build the Empire State Building, and 5 years to build the Hoover Dam yet current estimates for the Francis Scott Key bridge rebuild are near 10 years. Why is this? Have we regressed?

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There’s a difference between building versus analyzing, designing, and building.   The analysis and design of the hover dam and empire State building was several more years.   

They will not build the FSK in the same design as what fell 

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