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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The Key bridge as an overall project took 29 years to build (4-lane approaches completed in 1999). This doesn’t include design and procurement time, 2-5 years or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_%28Baltimore%29

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