Our Nation’s Infrastructure Gets Failing Grade, UA Center Seeks Solutions

By Chrishan Emonina

With Hurricane Katrina’s intense destruction in 2005, government officials and private citizens can no longer take public infrastructure for granted. Through a series of research projects, UA’s Aging Infrastructure Systems Center for Excellence is improving the productivity and resilience of aging assets in America.

“Hurricane Katrina has amplified our awareness of the dramatic and disastrous impact of failing to invest in the maintenance of our nation’s infrastructure,” said Dr. David Hale, director of the one-of-a-kind center at UA and the William White McDonald Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow. “No longer can we pretend that the problem is hypothetical or doesn’t affect us; aging infrastructure is costly to our prosperity and quality of life.”

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