Since releasing the grades from our 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, many of you have been asking about what the conditions are on the local and state level.  Well, to put it simply, we are working on it.   When the Report Card gets fully released on March 25th, ASCE will also be releasing [...]

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The news of ASCE’s 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure is spreading across the country and even around the globe.   At today’s release event, ASCE President, D.Wayne Klotz, P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE reminded us that “Crumbling infrastructure has a direct impact on our personal and economic health, and the nation’s infrastructure crisis is endangering our [...]

Today, we at the American Society of Civil Engineers released our 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. As in 2005, the cumulative GPA on the Report Card was a D. Additionally, we estimate that it will take $2.2 trillion spent (that’s including both current and new monies) over five years to bring the condition up [...]

The excitement is building – the 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure is coming out tomorrow!   Everywhere I go, people stop me and ask about the Report Card. Walking down the street, on the Metro, camped outside my front door – everyone wants to know the grades. OK, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, [...]

We’re putting the finishing touches on everything and the big day is almost here! On Wednesday, January 28 ASCE will release its 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. It’s hard to believe that after over a year of work, it’s finally here.   On Wednesday, we will release the grades from each of the 15 [...]

A special dispatch from Leslie Nolen, ASCE’s Senior Manager of Grassroots and State Government Relations   Nowhere to begin but at the very beginning…   I had hoped to make it to ASCE’s D.C .office at 101 Constitution Avenue, mere yards from the West front of the Capitol – what a great vantage point! Maybe [...]

President Barack Obama took the oath of office today and immediately set the country on an ambitious task with these words. The new president faces incredible challenges with an economy in shambles and two wars abroad.   In his inaugural address, President Obama promised to put people back to work through infrastructure and science, “We [...]

Across the country today, people will be gathering to celebrate and remember this great man’s legacy. True, Dr. King didn’t spend a lot of time talking about infrastructure, but he did spend quite a bit of energy talking and teaching about individual rights and responsibilities.   Thanks to people like Dr. King who reminded us [...]

With all the attention infrastructure has been receiving in regards to the economic recovery package, the one question we at ASCE seem to be hearing the most is, “Hey, when are you guys putting out your updated Report Card?”   Well funny you should ask that, because we just decided to release the 2009 Report [...]

All the buzz around the Nation’s Capital this past month has been on the proposed economic recovery package. As the economy has worsened, the goals of the program have increased. And presumably so has the price tag. The only problem was, no one knew exactly what that price tag would be.   House Appropriations Committee [...]