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Re:Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018) by giarc on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:44AM (#21629075)
- lack of experience and expertise. Canada is a relatively young country with very few major infra projects under its belt.

Wait? We need to have 14th century church building experience to be considered experienced at building infrastructure?

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Re:Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018) by dcolkitt on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:48AM (#21629131)
Yeah, this doesn't make sense to me either. 60 years ago South Korea was one of the poorest countries on Earth. Today it manages to build world-class infrastructure at very low cost.

In contrast America was the first country in the world to build subways on a mass scale. Yet today it has by far the highest subway construction cost in the world. At least an order of magnitude higher than South Korea.

I'm skeptical that aggregate experience on a national-level at decade-scale makes any major difference.

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