re: Why does it seem like commercial construction projects take forever these days ?

As others have mentioned, skilled labor and lead times are problems. My company is looking at a small 10,000 sf project in Dallas that might have to get redesigned because the lead time for a transformer is currently 60+ weeks. It should be a 6-8 month job. It also seems to be more common that higher ups are overpromising on the front end in order to get the jobs, which puts the operations team in a tough spot leading to over budget/over schedule projects.