Closing the Data Gap: How Digital Solutions Are Building Smarter Infrastructure

December 03, 2025By. ASCE Staff

Infrastructure Data Matters On December 1, ASCE partnered with Autodesk and Mott MacDonald to discuss the important role digital data plays in today’s infrastructure landscape. Panelists explored how digital solutions—like AI, cloud collaboration, and connected data environments—are streamlining project information, improving decision-making, and enabling more resilient, future-ready infrastructure. The Challenge: Aging Systems and a $3.7......

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California’s Infrastructure Report Card 2025: Challenges and Opportunities

December 03, 2025By. ASCE Staff

On December 3, 2025, ASCE Region 9, which encompasses the state of California released the 2025 Report Card for California’s Infrastructure, giving the state an overall grade of C-, consistent with the grade it received in 2019. California is home to nearly 40 million residents, a global economy, and some of the nation’s most complex......

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Election Day 2025 delivers major wins for U.S. infrastructure funding

November 13, 2025By. ASCE Staff

Last Tuesday, voters across the United States cast their ballots in resounding support of transportation and infrastructure funding. This is part of a trend in 2025 where voters have approved 82 percent of more than 280 state and local infrastructure funding measures. These initiatives are expected to generate more than $24 billion in new and......

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Airport infrastructure focus of ASCE Making the Grade webinar

November 13, 2025By. ASCE Staff

On November 6, ASCE joined with airport leaders and experts to showcase the state of aviation infrastructure. As a part of the Making the Grade webinar series, presenters shared key perspective on various criteria essential to airport facility performance including capacity, funding, and innovation. Aviation was one of 18 categories graded in the 2025 Report......

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Louisiana’s Infrastructure: Making Progress, But Still a Long Road Ahead

November 12, 2025By. ASCE Staff

If you’ve ever watched the news after a major storm hits the Gulf Coast, you know that Louisiana’s infrastructure faces significant external threats, which challenge and wear down an aging network of transportation and waters systems. And today, ASCE’s Louisiana Section gave us the latest snapshot: Louisiana’s infrastructure earned a ‘C-’ on its 2025 Report......

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Tags: flooding, hurricane, resilience, transportation, water infrastructure

2025 Maryland Infrastructure Report Card: Key Findings, Challenges & Future Solutions

October 23, 2025By. ASCE Staff

Maryland’s Infrastructure Holds Steady at a ‘C’ in 2025 Report Card The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Maryland Section has released its 2025 Report Card for Maryland’s Infrastructure, assigning the state an overall grade of ‘C’, unchanged from 2020 and matching the national average. While this grade indicates that Maryland’s infrastructure is performing adequately......

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ASCE Making the Grade Webinar Examines Ports and Inland Waterways

October 07, 2025By. ASCE Staff

On October 2, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) hosted a collaborative webinar focused on Ports and Inland Waterways, two of the 18 categories evaluated in the 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. In the 2025 report, Ports received the highest grade among all categories with a B, up from a B– in 2021.......

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Federal Government Shuts Down as Congress Fails to Reach Spending Deal

October 03, 2025By. ASCE Staff

When the clock struck midnight on October 1, government funding lapsed as lawmakers had not secured a deal to fund the government past the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The federal government shutdown comes after weeks of negotiations in Congress on whether to approve a short-term continuing resolution that would have kept the government......

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Idaho’s Infrastructure Sees Modest Progress in 2025 ASCE Report Card

September 11, 2025By. ASCE Staff

Idaho’s infrastructure is improving, demonstrating that proactive state programs and contributions from the federal government and private sector can improve the systems all residents and businesses depend on. Today ASCE’s Idaho sections released its 2025 Report Card for Idaho’s Infrastructure, awarding the state an overall grade of ‘C’, up from a ‘C-’ in 2018. While......

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ASCE releases updated resilience toolkit, hosts Capitol Hill briefing

September 08, 2025By. ASCE Staff

On September 8, ASCE released its updated toolkit, Pathways to Resilient Communities: Infrastructure Designed for the Environmental Hazards in Your Region. The toolkit offers guidance for civil engineers, community leaders, and related stakeholders to adopt and implement up-to-date, modern building codes and standards responsive to extreme weather and environmental threats. As a standards development organization......

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