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    Grand Challenge    

    Work together to close the infrastructure gap from planning to design to delivery

    Infrastructure

    Propose practical solutions to maintain & modernize our nation’s deteriorating infrastructure

    Sustainability

    Embrace and encourage civil engineers’ role as contributors to a sustainable world     

    Raise the Bar

    Increase education requirements for engineering licensure to better protect the public in the future

  • Highway Trust Fund

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    While the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act provided five years of certain funding for roads, bridges, and transit, it didn't address the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. Tell Congress you want to see a long-term solution to fund our nation's transportation needs. Take action with ASCE at www.fixthetrustfund.org

    Report Card

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    America's Infrastructure Report Card is out!  Find out the grades and how you can help

  • Kern County Infrastructure at a ‘C’ in 2018 Report Card
    Sep 19 2018
    By Anna Denecke

    On September 18, the Southern San Joaquin Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers released the 2018 Report Card for Kern County’s Infrastructure. Nine categories of infrastructure earned an overall grade of ‘C.’ Bridges received the highest grade of ‘B+,” a significant improvement over the ‘B-’ in the 2012 Kern County Report Card. Transit...

    WRDA Passes in the House
    Sep 14 2018
    By Emily Castellanos

    Today, the House of Representatives passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2018, S. 3021. The passage of this bill authorizes key programs and projects that are critical to improving our nation’s water-related infrastructure categories. The 2017 Infrastructure Report Card graded each of these categories; ports received a grade of “C+,” while dams, levees,...