Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure - A Useful New Site

I came across a great new website for civil engineering professionals the other day: Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure.

This is a new site from StagnitoMedia, publishers of CENews.com. It provides news and insights into the U.S. infrastructure industry with a focus on bridges and roads. If your engineering firm is trying to make the most out of the economic stimulus package by landing some lucrative infrastructure work, this site is built for you.

Recycling with Civil Engineering

I recently came across a webpage from the EPA that describes a number of great uses for scrap tires in civil engineering applications. Apparently shredded tires offer significant cost and lifetime benefits for many civil engineering purposes. Also, many states offer grants and/or subsidies for helping reduce used tire stockpiles.

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 [...]