Inside the Infrastructure Revolution: A Roadmap for Rebuilding America

A unique insider's guide to how America is reinventing the way we plan, build, deliver, and maintain our essential services and civil infrastructure, much of which is fifty-plus years old, built for a smaller nation with out-of-date technologies. Our airports are ranked among the worst in the world, our water systems are failing, our transportation corridors are clogged.

How will we finance the $3 trillion of work needed to keep America competitive in a global economy? Author Mary Scott Nabers has been working on this question for more than two decades as a matchmaker between public officials and the private sector contractors. She reports that today's innovative companies and forward-thinking public officials are reshaping how the US purchases and delivers public assets. The trends Nabers predicted six years ago in her first book, Collaboration Nation, have gained momentum, evolved, and matured into a sophisticated market for solutions for our infrastructure and public service needs.

The new model is the public-private partnership--PPP or P3. Instead of taxpayers alone shouldering the financial burden and risk of replacing worn-out bridges, renovating schools, modernizing airports, and upgrading water systems, Nabers describes in detail the development of joint ventures that transfer risk and maintenance responsibility to private vendors under long-term contracts--with government retaining control and oversight.

Inside The Infrastructure Revolution is filled with specific information and actual examples and case studies of public-private joint ventures, illustrating the opportunities and benefits as well as pitfalls to avoid.

America has the capital, the tools, and the creativity to tackle this problem. Let the revolution begin!