2021 Report Card for America's Infrastructure¶
American Society of Civil Engineers. (2021). 2021 Report Card for America's Infrastructure.
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Primes¶
- Technical Debt
- Software engineering — the origin: shipping code that is "not quite right" to meet a deadline, with the accumulated cost of the shortcut compounding across the system's life. Physical infrastructure — deferred maintenance on bridges, roads, and utilities, where each year of deferral compounds future catastrophic-failure risk; "infrastructure debt" is a term of art.
This sourceA $786 billion road-and-bridge backlog and a $2.59 trillion 10-year investment gap; deferred maintenance projects 'will cost significantly more to address' over time — deferral priced as compounding future cost ('infrastructure debt').
- Software engineering — the origin: shipping code that is "not quite right" to meet a deadline, with the accumulated cost of the shortcut compounding across the system's life. Physical infrastructure — deferred maintenance on bridges, roads, and utilities, where each year of deferral compounds future catastrophic-failure risk; "infrastructure debt" is a term of art.
- Unowned Known Risk
- Infrastructure decay — bridges, dams, water systems with known decay curves and maintenance backlogs — shows the same shape, with post-failure narratives emphasising the proximate storm or truck over the structural deferral.
This sourceDocuments known decay curves and maintenance backlogs for bridges, dams, and water systems — hazards with shared knowledge and deferred, diffusely owned prevention (overall grade C-, $2.59 trillion investment gap).
- Infrastructure decay — bridges, dams, water systems with known decay curves and maintenance backlogs — shows the same shape, with post-failure narratives emphasising the proximate storm or truck over the structural deferral.
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