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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Well for one, you’re comparing apples to oranges here. Bridges, buildings, and dams are 3 completely different construction projects and should not be compared. And two, the original construction of the Francis Scott key Bridge took 5 years to complete from 1972-1977, but they didn’t have to deal with a previously collapsed bridge. Now they have to essentially clean the entire area of debris, remove/build around the current “bridge”, and *then* construct the bridge.
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