While work on the next surface reauthorization bill is still in its early stages, many see it as an opportunity to push for policies that would encourage resiliency, changing the way we plan, design, fund, and maintain facilities.

We examine resiliency and the legislative agenda impacting the cement and concrete industries with the House Select Committee’s ranking member, Congressman Garret Graves, Republican from Louisiana.

A House panel in Washington, D.C. today heard from the cement and concrete industry about steps needed to improve industrial emissions. Dr. Jeremy Gregory, Executive Director of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, testified before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

This week, we explore the Infrastructure Report Card issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers, with Anna Denecke, ASCE’s Director of Infrastructure Initiatives.

This week, Dr. Jeremy Gregory, the Executive Director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joins us to explain the science of concrete, telling us why it’s cooler, and how it’s able to last so long.

With Congress still away on summer vacation, we’re taking stock of the people who make up the cement and concrete industry. Mike Philipps, the new President of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association talks policy, traffic congestion, and mixing trucks.

The excitement over Senate EPW committee passage of a bill addressing surface transportation needs remains, but the reality is the unanimous vote to move the plan before the August break is only one step in a very long process.

States plan, design, build, and help fund the nation’s infrastructure. So how are they feeling about the Senate’s first attempt at a six-year reauthorization plan?

It’s been a little more than a week since the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee delivered America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019, putting down a marker for spending and staking out positions on several policy issues, including resiliency.

Weather is always a consideration when engineers design, and contractors build, our nation’s roads and bridges. Our guest, Pam Russell, a veteran journalist who covered Hurricane Katrina, discusses the impacts of weather on the things we build.