Promote Sustainability And Resilience

摘要

In issuing its 2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure, ASCE offered five solutions that would lead to the raising of the pitifully low national infrastructure grades. The second solution-promote sustainability and resilience-focused on better integrating sustainability and resiliency into the effort to improve our infrastructure. Sustainable practices ensure that future generations can use and enjoy what we build today, just as we have benefited from the work of past generations. Providing resilience ensures that the structures that we build can gracefully adapt to both present and future physical, economic, and social challenges. Sustainability and resilience give us the capacity to endure.