Infrastructure Priorities: Transportation

Federal leadership is revving up around the importance of addressing, and efficiently completing critical transportation projects around the country, via an “America is Building Again” agenda. The Department of Transportation (DOT) is steadily releasing funds to get road, bridge, and...

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Extreme Weather: Transportation Resilience

As incidents of extreme weather continue to make news around the country, it’s clear that many of our surface transportation systems are not up to the challenge. Increasing resilience in the face of everything from floods, to rising sea levels...

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Flying Into The Sunset?

Remember the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)? Signed into law in 2021, it authorized $1.2 trillion for transportation and infrastructure over five years—and those five years are coming to a close. Though there are unknowns about whether or not...

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On The Move: Infrastructure In Virginia

Across the country, states, including Ohio, Texas and Utah, continue to think big about transportation infrastructure, and make investments too. Virginia has come out with a super-sized commitment: a plan to invest $28.5 billion on a six-year improvement plan. Projects...

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Infrastructure: Let’s Build!

Leadership at the U.S. Department of Transportation says it’s time to get the hard work of building moving again, and to that end, $3.2 billion is rolling out around the country in the form of federal grants. Building public works...

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Public Builds: Bid Time?

In the continued effort to breathe new life into roads, bridges, airports and other vital transportation infrastructure across the country, nearly $9 billion in federal funds was recently authorized and is headed out to states. For construction businesses with an...

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Why Wait: Resiliency Projects

As the work of rebuilding after Hurricanes Helene and Milton unfolds, states across the country are pressing ahead with critical “infrastructure resiliency” projects designed to curtail damage and improve preparedness in the face of severe weather events, especially flooding.  High...

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New Jersey-New York: Uh-Oh?

As states across the country grapple with how to ensure “infrastructure resiliency” in the face of climate change, decision making, project planning and regulatory debate is heating up in New Jersey and New York. What happens when transit challenges, rising...

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Infrastructure Update: 60,000 Projects

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) which was signed into law in late 2021, has so far resulted in over 60,000 construction projects around the country aimed at modernizing the deteriorating systems that keep people and businesses moving. Despite...

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Green Infrastructure: Porous Pavement

Strategic use of porous pavement along seven miles in Brooklyn will allow storm water to drain into the ground, rather than flood city sewer systems. The $32 million dollar project is scheduled for completion next year. As green infrastructure efforts...

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