Industry leaders also worry about the future impact of cutbacks to public construction spending and construction materials costs that have been outstripping building bid prices.
Two days before the budget package passed, he had launched a last-minute personal bid to save Philipp Holzmann, a private German construction company, from bankruptcy and the loss of some 60, 000 jobs.
Aware of the potential of her project but unable to finance it she applied to a government tender scheme that allows small businesses or individuals to bid for one-off jobs with public bodies, such as cleaning or construction contracts.