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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To piggy back on a lot of others in this thread, construction projects today are more involved than just the building. New access routes and updates to other road infrastructure will follow the bridge, modernizing as they go. New utility connections plus I’m sure new collision mitigation structures.

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