Infrastructure Renovation & Replacement

Your community's revitalization should eventually encompass your entire region for maximum effectiveness.  But, it can start with a primary focus on any of the 12 sectors of restorable assets, at any scale.  One of the best starting points for regional renewal is infrastructure.  Within that sector, water and transportation infrastructure are often the best candidates for integrated regional renewal programs.  Water quality/quantity issues and public transit challenges are often reliable ways of motivate jurisdictions to work together when nothing else will.  

If you've already got a strong infrastructure renewal program, it can be an excellent foundation from which to launch your Renewal Capacity Program.

Definition & overview: There's no formal definition of infrastructure restoration, as it can focus on a number of restorable functions and assets, such as drinking water treatment & distribution, sewage collection & treatment, transportation, power, telecommunications, and solid waste.  Our short definition is "everything that connects our built environment and allows flows: flows of traffic, power, information, waste, water, etc."  

There are other categories of infrastructure that are either specialized (such as security infrastructure), or that are new concepts.  An example of the latter is "green infrastructure", which recognizes that the majority of critical assets upon which we rely, such as air, fresh water, food, etc. are products of nature. The phrase "green infrastructure" was coined in order to get society to take the maintenance and restoration of these assets seriously, because we tend to take them for granted, expending the majority of our funds on built infrastructure.