ASCE Metropolitan Section - Infrastructure Group

The Infrastructure Group was created in 1990, consolidating the activities of four Met Section technical groups: Engineering Management, Transportation, Environmental Engineering, and Urban Planning.

The mission of Infrastructure Group is:

To gather the latest information on the planning, design, construction, maintenance and repair of the New York City Metropolitan region's infrastructure subsystems (e.g., electric power and communications, gas and liquid fuels, transportation, water supply, and sewerage).
To actively encourage the development of communication channels and foster a dialogue among the engineering community, the construction industry, public and governmental authorities and agencies, as well as the public at-large.
To disseminate the latest information to as large an audience as possible and thereby make a tangible contribution towards improving the quality of life in the New York City Metropolitan area.

Past and Future Activities

The Infrastructure Group has organized a number of conferences and seminars. Proceedings are still available for the seminars held from 2001-2011 at $35 each + $5 shipping. Please contact the Infrastructure Group chair to order.

Meetings are usually held on the third Tuesday of each month. Upcoming Infrastructure Group lectures are shown in the calendar on the right side of this page.

Lectures, worth 1.5 PDH each, are held from 6:00-7:30 pm at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Pfizer Auditorium, Dibner Building, 5 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Refreshments are served from 5:30 to 6:00 pm.

A two day seminar worth 10.0 PDH is held for two days during the last week of March/first week of April from 2:15-9:00 pm on the first day and 2:30-9:00 pm on the second day.

New Members are Welcome

Prospective members from any of the infrastructure specialties and expertise willing to contribute to the group should contact the Infrastructure Group chair.

Future speakers for our lectures and seminars are also encouraged to contact the Infrastructure Group chair with proposed topics and ideas for presentations.

Infrastructure Seminar Looks at NYC Storm Surge Barriers

An international array of engineers and scientists gathered at the 2009 Infrastructure Group Seminar, "Against the Deluge: Storm Surge Barriers to Protect New York City," held at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University on March 30-31. The objective of the seminar was to begin to develop the scientific and engineering information base needed to evaluate storm surge barrier concepts and perhaps point the way to their further development.