While hundreds of infrastructure projects languish for want of funding, experts say that last year alone, the top 30 global infrastructure equity funds raised enough capital to finance $724 billion dollars’ worth of these projects. Funding is not a problem! Interestingly enough, the United States was home to five of the top 10 and 10 […]
You don’t have to live in Flint, Michigan, to be the victim of exposure to less-than-safe drinking water. A recent report by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) estimates that last year, millions of Americans were served by water systems with multiple lead-related violations. The violations point to the increasing need for upgrades to water […]
Toll roads, clean and renewable energy, water and wastewater treatment plants – not the typical projects one would expect to find in the investment portfolio of a public pension plan. Remarkably, these types of income-generating, long-term asset infrastructure projects are becoming increasingly appealing, attracting billions of public pension investment dollars annually in the United States. […]
America’s infrastructure is crumbling – our roads, bridges, schools and water plants. While government officials are eager to address these growing needs, funding sources are scarce. There is an alternative solution to paying for infrastructure projects with funding other than local, state and federal allocations. But, according to a report released this week by the […]
Americans have only to drive on the nation’s roads and highways or across its thousands of bridges to realize the immediacy of the need for transportation infrastructure upgrades. But, there is another segment of public infrastructure assets that is not quite so visible – the nation’s water infrastructure. Government administrators are facing water systems that […]
The budget knife cut deep into proposed capital outlay projects in Louisiana this week. The House Ways and Means Committee either reduced or eliminated more than a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of funding for proposed projects statewide as lawmakers continue to deal with a growing state budget deficit. These proposed capital outlay projects […]
Things in Chicago are about to get a little bit brighter! Hailed as “one of the largest municipal lighting modernization programs in the country,” the Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) Monday issued a request for proposals (RFP) from private-sector firms for its Smart Lighting Project. The proposal will replace 85 percent – or more than 345,000 […]