If you think that infrastructure can’t be cool, think again. Transport systems, public utilities, telecommunications, and various facilities might sound dull and dreary on the surface, but that’s not ...
President Donald Trump spoke of the need to “rebuild our crumbling infrastructure” during his State of the Union speech. New Orleans is almost a case study in the massive investment needed to repair ...
Every day, your life is affected by infrastructure - the roads you drive on, the bridges you cross, the water you drink, the rail the metro in our city runs on, or the runway your flight lands on are ...
Over the past several weeks, prominent Democrats in Washington have claimed that items ranging from caregiving, to climate action, to the Everglades ecosystem in South Florida are all examples of ...
A wastewater treatment plant in Houston. The city wants to fund energy-efficiency upgrades at 30 treatment plants. (CSA Construction) Infrastructure is not just about building roads and bridges. It’s ...
In the fall of 2017, workers navigated sloppy mudflats in the bottom of the drained Paonia Reservoir in an urgent effort to prevent catastrophe: a damaged bulkhead threatened to break apart and damage ...
Back when I was a parent for the first time, I fretted over whether to put our child into day care. Would having strangers looking after my firstborn be good or bad for the child, I kept asking? At ...
American history is filled with examples of infrastructure projects whose costs and timelines ballooned because of waste and fraud. To cite one of the most infamous cases, the “Big Dig” road ...