Lessons of 1993 Pay Dividends in 2008 - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction

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While the flood fight and cleanup continues in the upper Midwest, national experts are pointing to the disaster as yet another gloomy warning that the nation’s infrastructure is sorely in need of some serious upgrades. “Katrina, I-35 and now these levees are examplesof how, when infrastructure is not accurately designed and maintained, it can result in the kind of catastrophe we are seeing now,” says David Mongan, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. “We need to examine risk of failure in a very different way than we have in the past,” he adds. “We need to identify risk more effectively to the public, governments, legislators and public- works officials, so when they make a decision to fund or ...

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