Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA, recently spoke with several winners of ASHRAE, NCEES, and the National Engineers Week Foundation’s New Faces of Engineering College Recognition Program.
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Talking Infrastructure with the New Faces of Engineering College Edition Winners
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012Guest on The Infra Blog: Christian Steinbrecher, President, Ukiah Engineering Inc., ASCE Oregon 2011-2012 Civil Engineer of the Year
Friday, March 30th, 2012
Christian F. Steinbrecher, president of Ukiah Engineering Inc., was awarded the “2011 – 2012 Engineer of the Year Award” by the Oregon Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers for his work on Oregon’s Infrastructure Report Card issued by the Oregon Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His experience has spanned almost […]
View this complete post...ASCE Report: ‘Failure to Act’ on Water Systems to Have Dire Consequences
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012America must invest in overhauling and expanding its aging water and wastewater infrastructure, some of it a century old, or face grave economic consequences, according to a study produced for ASCE, Failure to Act: The Economic Impact of Current Investment Trends in Water and Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure. This news report on the study, featuring ASCE […]
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Carol Bowers, Interim Executive Director, American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES)
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Carol W. Bowers, a Certified Association Executive and Professional Geologist, is the interim Executive Director for the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES). AAES is a unifying voice for member societies representing over 1,000,000 engineers in the United States. Ms. Bowers provides association management experience by partnering with the AAES Board of Directors on strategic […]
View this complete post...Failure to Act: The Economic Impact of Current Investment Trends in Water and Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Of all the infrastructure types, water is the most fundamental to life, and is irreplaceable for drinking, cooking, and bathing. Farms in many regions cannot grow crops without irrigation…Water infrastructure in the United States is clearly aging, and investment is not able to keep up with the need. This study’s findings indicate that investment needs will continue to escalate.
Talking Infrastructure with Engineers at ASCE’s 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011This is the third in a series of posts.
Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA speaks with several engineers attending the American Society of Civil Engineers 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference held last month in Memphis, Tennessee:
Talking Infrastructure with Engineers at ASCE’s 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011This is the second in a series of posts
Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA speaks with several engineers attending the American Society of Civil Engineers 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference held last month in Memphis, Tennessee:
Talking Infrastructure with Engineers at ASCE’s 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference
Friday, November 11th, 2011This is the first in a series of posts.
Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA speaks with several engineers attending the American Society of Civil Engineers 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference held last month in Memphis, Tennessee:
Report Card 2011: Bay Area Infrastructure
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Since the last update of the American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE)’s Bay Area Infrastructure Report Card in 2005, we have seen several major infrastructure failures: the gas line explosion in San Bruno, California with major loss of life in 2010; wastewater discharges from Marin County into the San Francisco Bay; and a collapse of the Interstate Route 35 Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota with significant loss of life in 2007. All of these are classic examples of aging infrastructure allowed to perform without sufficiently funded monitoring, rehabilitation, and replacement programs.
View this complete post...The Rough Road Ahead: What is the Cost?
Friday, July 29th, 2011
The American Society of Civil Engineers has released an accompanying infographic to their recently released report. “The nation’s deteriorating surface transportation infrastructure will cost the American economy more than 870,000 jobs, and suppress the growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product by $3.1 trillion by 2020. The report showed that in 2010, deficiencies in America’s […]
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