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ASCE releases updated resilience toolkit, hosts Capitol Hill briefing

September 08, 2025By: ASCE Staff

On September 8, ASCE released its updated toolkit, Pathways to Resilient Communities: Infrastructure Designed for the Environmental Hazards in Your Region. The toolkit offers guidance for civil engineers, community leaders, and related stakeholders to adopt and implement up-to-date, modern building codes and standards responsive to extreme weather and environmental threats. As a standards development organization......

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Decoding America’s Construction Labor Shortage: Implications for National Stability and Security

September 03, 2025By: Guest Author

The US built environment, encompassing construction, infrastructure, real estate, and urban planning, is grappling with a severe labor shortage. Yet, this aspect of the American economy plays an outsized role in the nation’s ability to support critical sectors such as housing, transportation, defense, and energy. On-site personnel represent 74% of the workforce in the built......

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When Strategy Meets Reality: How Funding Shapes Infrastructure Outcomes

August 06, 2025By: Guest Author

By Barry Schoch, PE – Vice President and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Design Service Line Leader at KCI Technologies, Former Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation At the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Solutions Summit, I had the opportunity to share my insights as part of a transportation panel focused on the intersection of asset management and infrastructure......

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Colorado’s Infrastructure Maintains ‘C-‘ grade

July 23, 2025By: ASCE Staff

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released its 2025 Report Card for Colorado’s Infrastructure, assigning the state an overall grade of ‘C-’, the same grade as the 2020 report card and one step lower than the national average of ‘C’. The report card includes 14 infrastructure categories and shows signs of progress and persistent challenges across......

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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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House T&I advances Clean Water Act permitting reform package

July 07, 2025By: ASCE Staff

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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Tags: Drinking Water, water infrastructure

Ohio’s Infrastructure Gets a Boost: 2025 Report Card Shows Progress, But Challenges Remain

June 25, 2025By: Kevin Longley

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Ohio Council of Sections has released its 2025 Report Card for Ohio’s Infrastructure, and there’s a bit of good news: Ohio’s overall grade has improved to a ‘C’, up from a ‘C-’ in 2021. That puts the Buckeye State on par with the national average, according to ASCE’s recently......

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Tags: eastpalestine, IIJA, infrastructureinvestment, rail, saferoads

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

ASCE, NMSA Host Webinar on 2025 Infrastructure Report Card

June 21, 2025By: ASCE Staff

On June 17th, the American Society of Civil Engineers joined with the National Municipal Stormwater Alliance (NMSA) to host a webinar providing an in-depth assessment of Stormwater as a part of the 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure.   Stormwater was one of 18 categories graded in the newly released report card receiving a “D.”......

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