Depends on the nature of the work - I recently did a gig at a civil design engineering firm and multiple projects came in at or under budget and on deadline.

We’re there some serious overtime crunch periods on a couple of them? Yes, but for a multimillion dollar project with expiring Federal funds, it was achieved as set forth.

I think we tend to hear more about the failures than the successes - the Omni hotels in Houston and Dallas built with bond funds were repaid years earlier than mandated because they were successful, for instance.