A Strategy to Renew America's Built Infrastructure

A statement of need for an honest policy and strategy to fix some real problems.

The United States of America faces a future of decline if it does not renew its built infrastructure.  Major investments in America’s infrastructure post World War II drove productivity gains across the nation leading to a half century of global economic leadership.  Recent decades of underinvestment in built infrastructure imperials America’s future prosperity and security.  A National Strategy to Renew America’s Built Infrastructure is needed to counter forces that restrain and hinder America’s continued success in a competitive world.

America’s built infrastructure began to show systematic signs of aging in the 1980s.  This was 30 years after the 1950s post World War II buildout of America’s built infrastructure that is consistent with well-established macro patterns of decay.[1]  This systematic decay was chronicled in Fragile Foundations (1988)[2], Committing to the Cost of Ownership (1990)[3], putting Federal Real Property on the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk List …