2025 Report Card for America's Infrastructure¶
American Society of Civil Engineers. (2025). 2025 Report Card for America's Infrastructure.
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- In civil engineering, deferred maintenance is accepted because the structure did not fail last year, and "this much corrosion is fine" becomes the new working standard.
This sourceDocuments that roughly half of U.S. bridges (about 49%) sit in "fair" condition - the deferred-maintenance band where serviceable structures degrade because maintenance is repeatedly postponed without failure - aging toward the end of a 50-year design life against a multi-hundred-billion-dollar rehabilitation backlog; the canonical authority for the civil-engineering pattern of deferred maintenance accepted because nothing failed last year.
- In civil engineering, deferred maintenance is accepted because the structure did not fail last year, and "this much corrosion is fine" becomes the new working standard.
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