Our Failing Infrastructure is pleased to add a new site to our blog roll of all things infrastructure. InfrastructureUSA is a great resource for bringing people together to support infrastructure improvement.   While you’re visiting the site, make sure to check out the interview with ASCE’s own Executive Director, Pat Natale, P.E. F.ASCE, on ASCE’s [...]

ASCE, the Building America’s Future coalition, and a host of other supporting organizations met in the U.S. Capitol this week to urge Congress to create a national infrastructure bank (NIB). The NIB would invest in large projects of national importance to help improve the quality of infrastructure across the country and create jobs.   ASCE’s [...]

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“According to submissions that we received from states, metropolitan planning organizations, and public transit agencies, 8,587 highway and transit projects are under construction in all 50 states, three territories, and the District of Columbia, totaling $19.7 billion, as of November 30, 2009. These projects have created or sustained more than 250,000 direct, on-project jobs, with [...]

An interesting and thought-provoking op-ed piece ran in Sunday’s Washington Post, “On Issues Like Global Warming, Scientists Need to Speak Up”, by Chris Mooney.  Despite the title, the piece has very little to do with the question of whether global warming is happening, why it’s happening or any of the other hot-button issues surrounding this [...]

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