Check the ceiling tiles.

Series of Woes Mar Iraq Project Hailed as Model - New York Times:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 27 — The United States is dropping Bechtel, the American construction giant, from a project to build a high-tech children’s hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after the project fell nearly a year behind schedule and exceeded its expected cost by as much as 150 percent.

Bechtel, same guys who built the Big Dig.

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