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New Guidebook Offers Practical Approaches to Infrastructure Resilience

March 19, 2026By. ASCE Staff

A New Guidebook to Strengthen Local Infrastructure Resilience A new resource from ASCE promotes strategies to strengthen state and local infrastructure resilience. Co-published by Microsoft, Bentley, and Duke University, the report, Built to Endure: A Smart Guide for US Cities to Build Resilient Infrastructure That Lasts, offers guidance on facilitating resilience-based approaches improving how infrastructure......

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North Carolina’s 2026 Infrastructure Report Card: Grades, Challenges & Path Forward

January 21, 2026By. ASCE Staff

North Carolina Earns a C- On Wednesday, January 21, the North Carolina Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released its 2026 Report Card for North Carolina’s Infrastructure at the North Carolina State University Club in Raleigh. This release represents the state’s first modern report card and gave the state’s infrastructure a ‘C-’......

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Tags: aviation, bridges, dams, infrastructure, infrastructure investment, North Carolina, report card, roads, stormwater, wastewater

ASCE’s Priorities for the 2026 Water Resources Development Act

January 15, 2026By. ASCE Staff

With the start of the New Year, ASCE is preparing for Congress’s consideration of the 2026 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). WRDA provides biennial authorization to water resources projects at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that improve the nation’s flood control capabilities, navigation, and resilience against increasingly extreme weather events. It also offers an......

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Tags: dams, inland waterways, levees, ports, Water Resources, water resources development act, WRDA

How Modern Technology and AI Can Improve Environmental Permitting for Everyone

January 13, 2026By. Guest Author

Environmental permitting balances economic development with environmental management. It enables us to build safe roads, modern bridges, and infrastructure, while also protecting our natural resources. However, the pathway for obtaining a permit is fraught with complexities, including: Backlogs Complex regulations Staffing constraints Inconsistent processes. These issues hinder the development of our nation’s infrastructure, water systems,......

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FY 2026 Spending Bills: Lawmakers Advance Funding for Commerce, Energy, and Interior Agencies

January 08, 2026By. ASCE Staff

Avoiding Another Shutdown: What’s at Stake Last fall, the federal government experienced a 43-day shutdown, the longest in history, because congressional lawmakers could not agree on terms for a full year spending deal. On January 5th, hoping to avoid another painful government shutdown, leaders of the Appropriations Committees in both chambers released the conferenced version......

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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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The Case for Building a Stronger Water Reuse Workforce

July 21, 2025By. Guest Author

By: Sarah Simons, Senior Technical Writer, CDM Smith As climate change and water shortages continue to threaten water-scarce regions across the United States (U.S.) and around the world, CDM Smith is driving innovation and leading the way in water reuse. However, to continue to expand water reuse and increase water resilience, we must address the......

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DOGE looms large as Congress begins marking up Fiscal Year 2026 funding bills

July 18, 2025By. ASCE Staff

With government funding set to expire on September 30th, the appropriations committees in Congress are working to finalize government spending levels for the coming fiscal year. Traditionally a bipartisan process, the negotiations surrounding Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 appropriations have been colored by the Trump administration’s focus on eliminating what it views as government “waste, fraud......

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Building America’s Future: Why Infrastructure Investment Matters Now More Than Ever

June 23, 2025By. Guest Author

By: Ben Pickett, Executive Vice President, Business Services Nucor Corporation For nearly six decades, Nucor has played a foundational role in building America—literally. As the largest steel producer in the United States, Nucor is responsible for more than one-quarter of the nation’s steel production. Roughly half of that steel goes directly into nonresidential construction and......

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Tags: infrastructure, infrastructure investment, infrastructure report card, roads, surface transportation, transportation

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