Editor's Blog

2010: The Year of Intelligent Infrastructure

In 2009, governments around the world reacted to the recession with major stimulus packages designed to speed up construction on infrastructure projects, with a focus on major investments in high-speed rail and clean energy.

A life less ordinary

There are certain things in life that are hard to get excited about. Take buying a new refrigerator or washing machine. These unglamorous items are so ubiquitous that any effort expended on them seems like a chore. But when your milk becomes cottage cheese overnight and your clothes start developing mildew, you quickly sit up and take notice.

Change for America’s Infrastructure is coming now

We will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s. Barack Obama in December 2008