In June 2013, AECOM released a white paper titled, “Fostering a Larger Private-Sector Role in United States Infrastructure.” The paper examines the extent to which the nation’s infrastructure assets need urgent attention and/or repair as well as innovative funding mechanisms that can help address those needs, especially public-private partnerships (PPPs). AECOM supports the idea that PPPs can provide an important avenue for advancing infrastructure projects and, consequently, improving the country’s long-term economic growth, competitiveness and quality of life.

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$121 billion 14 million 67 percent 48 years $1 trillion
THE STATE OF AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURETHE STATE OF AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE
The cost of congestion
on the U.S. economy
in 2011—roughly
the equivalent of
Vietnam’s GDP
Number of children
attending deteriorating
public schools in need of
maintenance and repair
projects of at least
$270 billion
Percentage of hospitals
that have put on hold
badly needed capital
projects since the
recession began in
late 2007
Average age of federal
buildings in the General
Services Administration’s
portfolio—close to the
life expectancy of
commercial buildings
Nationwide investment
needs for buried drinking
water over the next
25 years
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