Best Practices to Recruit and Retain Infrastructure Workers
August 21, 2023
The American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Governors Association released a policy brief in August 2023 identifying effective approaches for recruiting and retaining infrastructure workers. The short- and long-term strategies were collected from a group of practitioners in the public and private sector....
July 27, 2023
Lawmakers are hustling to finish government funding bills before September 30th, but the substantial differences between the House of Representatives and Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) bills indicate the two chambers have a lot of work to do to reach a compromise on Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 spending legislation. The......
Help – What’s a Key Alert? How to Become an Infrastructure Grassroots Champion
June 29, 2023
ASCE recently sent out what we call a “Key Alert” to members last week urging them to contact their members of Congress and support reauthorizing the bill that funds the nation’s airports. With legislation finally introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), it’s the......
New PROTECT program offers millions for improving infrastructure resilience
May 04, 2023
Government agencies—from state departments of transportation to Indian Tribes—can now apply for some of the $848 million in discretionary grant funding that was recently made available through the new Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Program, which aims to make infrastructure more resilient to climate change. The PROTECT program was one......
Join ASCE for Infrastructure Week 2023 – #InfrastructureWorks
May 02, 2023
ASCE Panel: Evolving Needs for the Infrastructure Workforce On May 15th, ASCE will lead a panel discussion on infrastructure workforce solutions with other industry experts. This event correlates with the theme of Infrastructure Week 2023: #InfrastructureWorks. About Infrastructure Week Infrastructure Week takes place in Washington, D.C. every May. In fact, for over a decade, industry......
House Republicans debut energy and permitting reform package
March 23, 2023
Last week, House Republicans formally introduced the Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R. 1). This comprehensive legislative package is aimed at increasing American energy production and enacting permitting reform to reduce regulatory burdens associated with the development of infrastructure projects. By designing the Lower Energy Costs Act as H.R. 1, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has signaled......
2023 ASCE Wyoming Report Card: Infrastructure Mediocre, Say Engineers
February 06, 2023
Professional engineers volunteering with the American Society of Civil Engineers released the first Report Card for Wyoming’s Infrastructure on January 31, 2023. The report includes five infrastructure categories receiving an overall grade of ‘C’ — meaning Wyoming’s infrastructure is in mediocre condition. Civil engineers graded Wyoming’s aviation (B-), bridges (C-), drinking water (C), roads (C),......
FAA Computer System Outage Demonstrates Need for Robust Aviation Investment
January 18, 2023
The computer system failure at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that grounded all domestic flights last Wednesday emphasized the need for greater investment in the nation’s aviation infrastructure. The temporary outage of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which gives pilots safety information about flight conditions, resulted in the delay or cancelation of thousands......
Congress Passes FY 2023 Omnibus
December 22, 2022
Christmas came early for Congress, as House and Senate leaders finally passed a much-awaited $1.7 trillion fiscal year (FY) 2023 omnibus spending bill. The bill represents an increase from the $1.5 trillion appropriations package for FY 22. The release of the bill’s text was quickly followed by action in both Chambers to meet the deadline......
House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis holds capstone hearing ahead of new Congress
December 07, 2022
At what was very likely its final hearing, the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the Climate Crisis convened December 6th to review its accomplishments and discuss considerations for future action. Created at the start of the 116th Congress, the select committee was authorized to study and make recommendations on policies to solve the climate......
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