The role of Roland Berger was also criticized in the construction industry: In 2002, Philipp Holzmann, for example, went bankrupt, even though Roland Berger had previously considered the company to be essentially capable of restructuring. Roland Berger later justified himself by saying that the management consultants' recommendations had not been followed. In 2005, Walter Bau went bankrupt, and Roland Berger was also supposed to help with its restructuring. The company received a fee in the millions for this. The Chairman of the Works Council argued that some of the management consultancy's instruments were not geared to the construction market or were generally not suitable for construction. However, observers emphasized that it was only the controlling system introduced by Roland Berger that revealed Walter Bau's desolate economic situation.