Every public service requires a robust physical and organizational structure: an infrastructure. America’s Infrastructures underpin highway systems, safe water systems, reliable communication systems, buildings, and resilient power plants. These services are only as vital as the infrastructure they are built on.

Healthy infrastructures are designed with a practical eye to the future demands that infrastructure will support. Once in place, infrastructures must evolve to meet the needs of a changing environment and the usual attrition that occurs with time.