The United States is embarking on a massive infrastructure build out to support as much as $10 trillion of new investments. Even if just 50% of that total is achieved, that’s still a significant amount of investment.
New auto factories, chip manufacturing plants, drug re-shoring, and the development of huge data centers to support the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics are coming. These new economic development opportunities will require new transportation systems with roads, bridges and ports, new electric and gas transmission lines, new water and wastewater infrastructure, and new fiber for phase one of the projects through their ultimate build-out. The demand will be high. The need will be immediate. There will be no time for lengthy planning, permitting, and design processes. The fast movers will deploy new design and construction technologies at the speed of business. AI-informed designs, building information models (BIM) using 3D–6D models for design, construction, scheduling, cost control and environmental impacts, 3D printing, advancements in material science, new construction equipment married with robotics, and more. It will all impact the safe and efficient construction of the twenty-first-century infrastructure we need to reliably and affordably serve a wide variety of new factories and industries in a competitive world marketplace. It is the future, and we have the opportunity to lead it.
