[quote=desmond]Do governments even have workers to build buildings? Isn’t it contracted out with maybe government supervisons on the job?[/quote]

On the Military/Federal projects I work on, the owner (US Army Corps, Naval Facilities, etc) has a project team that runs the gamut from contracts officers (who manage the contract with the winning contract team, including architects, engineers and general contractor), through project engineers (who oversee that the project is being built according to the approved plans/specs and ensure quality control) to a project manager who provides oversight throughout and then signs off on the final construction and “gets the keys” (and thus releases the project team).

I’m not aware (on the Mil/Fed side) of any government construction teams; it’s all done by private contractors who bid/bond/prosecute the work.