Our Infrastructure’s Poor Grades
In January 2009, as the stimulus package was being debated on a national level, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released a timely preview of a study it was working on. The study was a that graded many areas of our nation’s infrastructure. It was not pretty. Overall, the ASCE gave our infrastructure a D with no specific area receiving anything higher than a C. They also estimated that the nation would need to invest 2.2 trillion dollars over the next five years to have any chance of raising our grades.
How to Earn Your Share of the Stimulus Money
We’ve all heard the number by now, roughly $800 billion and a large portion of that going to infrastructure projects. As a civil engineer, numbers like that make me very interested.
Well, it looks like a large share of the infrastructure money is going to be spent on new and improved roads. While most states are [...]
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