National Building Safety Month – How Can Engineers Protect the Public?
May 11, 2023
May is National Building Safety Month and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is doing its part to ensure these structures are safe and reliable, despite omnipresent environmental hazards and increasingly severe weather events. The video above highlights one example where ASCE standards prevented disasters. ASCE has developed building codes and design standards......
Michigan Civil Engineers Give the State’s Infrastructure a “C-” grade
May 10, 2023
On Monday May 8th, the Michigan Section of ASCE released the 2023 Report Card for Michigan’s Infrastructure in Lansing, MI. The report included 14 infrastructure categories, which received a cumulative grade of “C-“, the same as the national infrastructure report card. This grade is an upgrade for Michigan, which received a “D+” in the 2018......
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......
Water Sector Celebrates Water Week 2023
April 27, 2023
This week, water sector professionals celebrated Water Week 2023 in Washington, DC. Professionals from the nation’s water utilities, advocacy groups, environmental organizations, and other key stakeholders gathered near Capitol Hill to hear from decision makers on the current state of water policy. This year, ASCE was proud to join 31 other organizations as an official......
New Report Shows Rising Cost of Repairing the Nation’s Dams
April 20, 2023
On April 14, 2023, the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) announced the release of a new report detailing the current cost of repairing and rehabilitating the nation’s non-federal dams. According to the report titled The Cost of Rehabilitating Dams in the U.S.: A Methodology and Estimate shows that the current cost of rehabilitating......
Restoration of historic Virginia train station celebrated on latest Roadshow stop
March 27, 2023
Restoration of historic Virginia train station celebrated on latest Roadshow stop The Engineering and Public Works Roadshow came to Main Street Station in Richmond, Virginia on March 24th to celebrate the historic train station’s transformation into a multimodal transit center and event venue. The roadshow is a partnership between ASCE, APWA, and ACEC to highlight......
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......
Buy America Comment Deadline Reached
March 16, 2023
For decades, Buy America requirements were focused on iron and steel and had only covered certain federally funded infrastructure projects; however, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) expanded those provisions and added new products to the list. Therefore, since the passage of the IIJA, the Office of Management and Budget has been tasked with......
Wyoming Civil Engineers Give the State’s Infrastructure a “C” grade
February 01, 2023
The Wyoming Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released the 2023 Report Card for Wyoming’s Infrastructure on January 31,, 2023. This is the first-ever infrastructure report card for the state, led by co-chairs Dustin Woods, P.E., and Tim Brugger, P.E. The new report card contains five categories of infrastructure receiving an overall grade of a ‘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......
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