Stimulus construction costs "holy cow" low

Ariel Hart at The AJC had this story earlier this month. Apparently construction firms are so desperate for work that the DOT's stimulus funds are going to go farther than anyone expected:

For the 40 bids on stimulus projects taken from across the state so far, the winning lots totaled almost $56 million. In a likely windfall for more projects, that’s nearly $42 million less than predicted, an AJC analysis shows: 43 percent less.