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Reactions to the ASCE 2013 Report Card on America’s Infrastructure

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

 Transportation for America’s Director James Corless: “Our country’s association of civil engineers continues to do the yeoman’s work of sounding the alarm on our country’s infrastructure — the roads, rails and waterways that we depend on to move our goods from place to place and get us where we need to go each day. But […]

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2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Once every four years, America’s civil engineers provide a comprehensive assessment of the nation’s major infrastructure categories in ASCE’s Report Card for America’s Infrastructure (Report Card). Using a simple A to F school report card format, the Report Card provides a comprehensive assessment of current infrastructure conditions and needs, both assigning grades and making recommendations for how to raise the grades. An Advisory Council of ASCE members assigns the grades according to the following eight criteria: capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation. Since 1998, the grades have been near failing, averaging only Ds, due to delayed maintenance and underinvestment across most categories.

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Failure to Act: The Impact of Current Infrastructure Investment on America’s Economic Future

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Infrastructure is the physical framework upon which the U.S. economy operates and the nation’s standard of living depends. Everything depends on this framework, including transporting goods, powering factories, heating and cooling office buildings, and enjoying a glass of clean water.

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Green Scissors 2012: Cutting Wasteful and Environmentally Harmful Spending

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
For more than 18 years the Green Scissors campaign has been a collaboration between budget and environmental groups aimed at eliminating wasteful spending that is harmful to the environment. This year’s report is a collaboration between environmental organization Friends of the Earth, budget watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense, and free-market think tank R Street. While each group comes to the Green Scissors project with a unique mission, a diverse constituency, and different opinions on the role of government, we join together around one shared goal: exposing and eliminating wasteful and environmentally harmful spending.

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Silicon Valley, CA: Advanced Water Purification Center Construction Time Lapse

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Construction of the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center – Santa Clara Valley Water District.

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King County, WA: Updating Waste Management Infrastructure

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

The King County Solid Waste Division is building a new transfer station at Bow Lake in Tukwila, has completed unique updates at the Houghton station in Kirkland and plans are under development for a new station in Factoria in Bellevue.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Scott Huler, Author, “On the Grid”

Monday, December 12th, 2011
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Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city’s eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from […]

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Infrastructure in the Afternoon

Monday, October 31st, 2011
Infrastructure in the Afternoon

November Public Forums at the Boston Public Library Boston Room, 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116 November 1, 15, 29, 2011, 4:00 – 5:30 PM The Massachusetts Infrastructure Investment Coalition (MIIC) is identifying the long-term needs for infrastructure investments to support economic development and improve the quality of life for the citizens of Massachusetts. The […]

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Interactive Map: New York State Sewers in Disrepair

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
NYS Sewes in Disrepair

Costly repair bills for state sewers To see the highest EPA-estimated repair costs in your area use the form to search. View full map (LoHud.com): NYS Sewers in Disrepair

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Richard G. Luthy, Director of Engineering, Research Center for Re-Inventing Water Infrastructure

Monday, August 29th, 2011
Richard G. Luthy, Director of Engineering, Research Center for Re-Inventing Water Infrastructure

Richard Luthy is the Director of Engineering for the Research Center for Re-Inventing America’s Water Infrastructure. He is also the Silas H. Palmer Professor and former Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His area of teaching and research is […]

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