Join ASCE for the Infrastructure Innovation Forum on May 6th!
April 07, 2026
ASCE Innovation Forum Wednesday, May 6 8:30 – 12:15pm EST Join the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on May 6th to hear insightful discussion on innovations shaping infrastructure both today and in the future. ASCE’s 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure highlighted ongoing improvements to the U.S. infrastructure network though critical needs across funding, policy,......
ASCE Reflects on One-Year Anniversary of 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure
March 25, 2026
One Year Since the 2025 Infrastructure Report Card The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) this week celebrates one year since the release of the 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. The report – widely recognized as the most cited infrastructure report in the nation – was introduced on March 25, 2025 at ASCE’s Solutions......
New Guidebook Offers Practical Approaches to Infrastructure Resilience
March 19, 2026
A New Guidebook to Strengthen Local Infrastructure Resilience A new resource from ASCE promotes strategies to strengthen state and local infrastructure resilience. Co-published by Microsoft, Bentley, and Duke University, the report, Built to Endure: A Smart Guide for US Cities to Build Resilient Infrastructure That Lasts, offers guidance on facilitating resilience-based approaches improving how infrastructure......
New StoryMap Features ASCE’s Resilience Toolkit
March 05, 2026
This week, ASCE published a new interactive StoryMap, highlighting the importance of infrastructure resilience: Ground-Level Resiliency: How Communities Can Lead. The new StoryMap showcases ASCE’s Pathways to Resilient Communities, revised and published in September 2025. Pathways offers background on the increasing severity of disasters and their impact to persons and property. The toolkit promotes infrastructure......
Infrastructure Investment Forum: Key Insights on P3s, Financing Tools, and Energy Resilience
February 20, 2026
Infrastructure Investment Matters ASCE hosted an infrastructure investment forum on February 18, infrastructure finance experts joined civil engineers to engage on the latest policies, tools, and resources in capital delivery. The event, hosted at Meridiam North America’s headquarters, offered insight and engagement on modern approaches to resource deployment for transportation, energy, and other critical networks.......
North Carolina’s 2026 Infrastructure Report Card: Grades, Challenges & Path Forward
January 21, 2026
North Carolina Earns a C- On Wednesday, January 21, the North Carolina Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released its 2026 Report Card for North Carolina’s Infrastructure at the North Carolina State University Club in Raleigh. This release represents the state’s first modern report card and gave the state’s infrastructure a ‘C-’......
ASCE’s Priorities for the 2026 Water Resources Development Act
January 15, 2026
With the start of the New Year, ASCE is preparing for Congress’s consideration of the 2026 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). WRDA provides biennial authorization to water resources projects at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that improve the nation’s flood control capabilities, navigation, and resilience against increasingly extreme weather events. It also offers an......
How Modern Technology and AI Can Improve Environmental Permitting for Everyone
January 13, 2026
Environmental permitting balances economic development with environmental management. It enables us to build safe roads, modern bridges, and infrastructure, while also protecting our natural resources. However, the pathway for obtaining a permit is fraught with complexities, including: Backlogs Complex regulations Staffing constraints Inconsistent processes. These issues hinder the development of our nation’s infrastructure, water systems,......
ASCE Submits Comments on Proposed Waters of the United States Rule
January 08, 2026
This week, ASCE submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) pertaining to the Trump Administration’s proposed rule defining “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act provides protections from discharges and other environmental hazards into American waterways and waterbodies......
FY 2026 Spending Bills: Lawmakers Advance Funding for Commerce, Energy, and Interior Agencies
January 08, 2026
Avoiding Another Shutdown: What’s at Stake Last fall, the federal government experienced a 43-day shutdown, the longest in history, because congressional lawmakers could not agree on terms for a full year spending deal. On January 5th, hoping to avoid another painful government shutdown, leaders of the Appropriations Committees in both chambers released the conferenced version......
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