After several decades of under-investment in U.S. infrastructure, the construction industry finds itself on the precipice of a significant capital injection – a new U.S. government infrastructure plan. Not only does the plan propose to deliver upgrades to the nation’s transportation, water, and energy infrastructure, it is a central tenet in the President’s public goal to continue economic recovery and create job growth following COVID-19.
This year, the American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure Report Card graded the nation’s infrastructure a worrisome C-. That places our nation’s roads, bridges, dams, and other infrastructure between the categories of “mediocre” and “poor, at risk,” with a rank of 13.
