Key Takeaways From the 2025 Report Card for Americas Infrastructure
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released its 2025 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, announcing America’s cumulative grade as a “C,” the highest mark since ASCE started releasing report cards in 1998.
The complete report card provides detailed information about America’s infrastructure beyond the overall score – grades across 18 infrastructure sectors and recommendations on how to improve that GPA and make infrastructure more resilient.
According to ASCE, This year’s report card is ASCE’s first since the signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in November 2021.
The all-time best C cumulative grade is a good indicator that the $1.2 trillion investment in the nation’s infrastructure has already made a positive difference.
Additionally, eight individual report card categories improved since the 2021 assessment and seven more maintained their grade levels.
“We worked really hard to get IIJA passed,” said Greg DiLoreto, a longtime member of ASCE’s Committee on America’s Infrastructure, which developed the report card. “We spent the last 20 years working on it. And clearly, you can see the benefits, particularly in several areas, transportation being the main one. Without IIJA, it’s pretty convincing that we would not have raised the grades.