Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure

Infrastructure plays an important role in maintaining the basic operation of cities. The current situation of the infrastructure in USA is not optimistic, especially in the urban areas. The most important reasons lie in the expanding population and the insufficient financial support. The expanding population has brought along serious pollution. Hence, the main task should focus on maintaining a sustainable development.

Maintaining infrastructure definitely involves the extremely complicated telecommunications systems, especially those underground. As a result, one major issue is to precisely locate the buried infrastructures, including pipes and cables. New technologies are required here to detect the underground network using devices from above the ground. What’s more, completing the transportation system is another major task to improve the infrastructure. There already have some approaches towards this issue. Improving the transportation systems involves the approach of establishing transportation hubs to make an easier life for both the transportation agents and the citizens. Some other approaches have been done to improve transportation systems.

In order to build a better infrastructure, it’s important to find noel construction materials and also improve the aesthetics of infrastructure design. New construction materials help to maintain the sustainability of development and the more pleasing design of infrastructure would promote a more comfortable environment for people.

To sum up, although there are some approaches to improve the infrastructures in US, this is still a grand challenge ahead of engineering. Better solutions are badly required.


Original source:
National Academy of Engineering (NAE). (2008). Restore and improve urban infrastructure. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2008, from
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9136.aspx