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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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New StoryMap Features ASCE’s Resilience Toolkit

March 05, 2026By: ASCE Staff

This week, ASCE published a new interactive StoryMap, highlighting the importance of infrastructure resilience: Ground-Level Resiliency: How Communities Can Lead. The new StoryMap showcases ASCE’s Pathways to Resilient Communities, revised and published in September 2025. Pathways offers background on the increasing severity of disasters and their impact to persons and property. The toolkit promotes infrastructure......

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Infrastructure Investment Forum: Key Insights on P3s, Financing Tools, and Energy Resilience

February 20, 2026By: ASCE Staff

Infrastructure Investment Matters ASCE hosted an infrastructure investment forum on February 18, infrastructure finance experts joined civil engineers to engage on the latest policies, tools, and resources in capital delivery. The event, hosted at Meridiam North America’s headquarters, offered insight and engagement on modern approaches to resource deployment for transportation, energy, and other critical networks.......

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Tags: #infrastructurematters, infrastructure, infrastructure investment, infrastructure investment forum, infrastructure report card

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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ASCE Submits Comments on Proposed Waters of the United States Rule

January 08, 2026By: ASCE Staff

This week, ASCE submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) pertaining to the Trump Administration’s proposed rule defining “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act provides protections from discharges and other environmental hazards into American waterways and waterbodies......

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Tags: clean water act, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Federal Rulemaking, flood protection, water infrastructure, Water Resources, Waters of the United States, Wetlands, WOTUS

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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2025 Drinking Water & Wastewater Webinar: Key Insights from ASCE

December 18, 2025By: ASCE Staff

Exploring Infrastructure Grades, Challenges, and Solutions for U.S. Drinking Water & Wastewater Systems Overview of the Webinar On December 11, ASCE hosted an insightful webinar titled “Making the Grade: Drinking Water & Wastewater” to examine critical issues and solutions shaping U.S. water infrastructure. This discussion provided an overview of the 2025 Report Card for America’s......

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Tags: Drinking Water, infrastructure investment, report card, wastewater, wastewater treatment, water infrastructure

West Virginia 2025 Infrastructure Report Card: ASCE Grades & Key Needs

December 17, 2025By: ASCE Staff

On Wednesday, December 17, the West Virginia Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released its 2025 Report Card for West Virginia’s Infrastructure at the state capitol building in Charleston, giving the state an overall grade of a ‘D+’, an improvement of the ‘D’ it received in their 2020 report card. Reliable, resilient......

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Tags: funding gap, infrastructure, population decline, resilience