Workers are attacked, engineers and contracting experts have fled government ministries, construction companies refuse to take jobs in risky areas and building materials are not available.
But this would require co-ordination between the agricultural, health and economy ministries, construction companies and elderly people set in their ways, none of whom find it easy to work with each other.
The jury had heard how in 2001, M&J won a €4.2m (then £2.6m) contract from the Iraqi ministry of construction to supply 13 steel modular bridges.
After Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist and turned Washington firmly against him, the ministry of construction attacked Porro for his bourgeois background and for the decadent sensualism of his designs.
As a result, just before the transfer of power, the occupation shifted $2.5 billion in Iraqi oil revenues, which were nominally under control of the Iraqi oil and finance ministries, to construction projects that would provide a quick payoff to Iraqis increasingly skeptical about American intentions.
Some of the subsidies were delivered through the construction ministry, but the farm ministry also played a big role.
Their target: the transport and construction ministry, home of pork-barrel spending.
In 2006 one ministry (Transport and Construction) alone spent more than $20m on taxis.
The construction ministry's man in Tokushima says that a referendum would be "poisonous medicine".
Third, the novice's chief credentials were that he had been a mandarin in the construction ministry.
Users are delighted, particularly companies too small to have their own private lines.The construction ministry wants to bring down the price of house construction by 30%.
