{"662028":{"#nid":"662028","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Tien Offers a Prescription for Maximizing Investments in Nation\u2019s Infrastructure","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act made headlines in late 2021 for its price tag of $1.2 trillion \u0026mdash; by some measures, the largest infrastructure package ever enacted in United States history. The act is a massive investment in the nation\u0026rsquo;s physical infrastructure systems. Georgia Tech civil engineer Iris Tien says it\u0026rsquo;s also a long-term investment in communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo be successful, the nation should focus on \u0026ldquo;meaningful investments in infrastructure that will result in resilient, sustainable, and equitable systems in support of communities,\u0026rdquo; said Tien, who studies infrastructure networks, including building, water, power, gas, communications, and transportation systems in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWriting recently in the American Society of Civil Engineers\u0026rsquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ascelibrary.org\/doi\/10.1061\/%28ASCE%29IS.1943-555X.0000684\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Infrastructure Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Tien identified areas in current infrastructure systems that inhibit progress and offered recommendations for more of those meaningful investments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/tien-offers-prescription-maximizing-investments-nations-infrastructure\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead about her key suggestions on the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn Journal of Infrastructure Systems article, Tien outlines recommendations for more resilient, sustainable, equitable infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In Journal of Infrastructure Systems article, Tien outlines recommendations for more resilient, sustainable, equitable infrastructure."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-10-12 15:21:06","changed_gmt":"2022-10-12 15:21:06","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"662025":{"id":"662025","type":"image","title":"Iris Tien at her desk","body":null,"created":"1665155863","gmt_created":"2022-10-07 15:17:43","changed":"1665587890","gmt_changed":"2022-10-12 15:18:10","alt":"Iris Tien looks at documents at her desk","file":{"fid":"250754","name":"Tien-Iris-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Tien-Iris-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Tien-Iris-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":346198,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Tien-Iris-t.jpg?itok=cSj5_gOC"}}},"media_ids":["662025"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"289141","name":"Women in Engineering (WIE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}