ASCE Reflects on One-Year Anniversary of 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure
March 25, 2026
One Year Since the 2025 Infrastructure Report Card The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) this week celebrates one year since the release of the 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. The report – widely recognized as the most cited infrastructure report in the nation – was introduced on March 25, 2025 at ASCE’s Solutions......
New Guidebook Offers Practical Approaches to Infrastructure Resilience
March 19, 2026
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......
North Carolina’s 2026 Infrastructure Report Card: Grades, Challenges & Path Forward
January 21, 2026
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-’......
ASCE’s Priorities for the 2026 Water Resources Development Act
January 15, 2026
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......
How Modern Technology and AI Can Improve Environmental Permitting for Everyone
January 13, 2026
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,......
FY 2026 Spending Bills: Lawmakers Advance Funding for Commerce, Energy, and Interior Agencies
January 08, 2026
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......
Election Day 2025 delivers major wins for U.S. infrastructure funding
November 13, 2025
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......
The Case for Building a Stronger Water Reuse Workforce
July 21, 2025
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......
DOGE looms large as Congress begins marking up Fiscal Year 2026 funding bills
July 18, 2025
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......
House T&I advances Clean Water Act permitting reform package
July 07, 2025
Last month, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee (T&I) held a markup session to consider a package of bills related to project permitting under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The package, H.R. 3898, the Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today (PERMIT) Act, includes more than a dozen bills introduced with the stated goal to......
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