How to Strategically Maximize Infrastructure Funding

Are you facing stormwater management issues, dealing with aging pipelines or roadway assets, developing a lead service line replacement program or installing electric vehicle charging stations along a roadway? Have you considered coordinating efforts to develop an integrated design and construction effort to complete multiple infrastructure goals simultaneously, but are wondering how to pay for it?

With aging assets, rising costs of materials and mobilization, and an increasing focus on resilience and safety, infrastructure projects have become more complicated and expensive. By taking a complete corridors approach and maximizing a single construction effort, communities can tap into more diverse funding streams to deliver future-proof projects that keep the roads and the utilities above and below them running smoothly. 

Watch this 1-hour webinar to learn more about breaking funding and project management silos and developing a strategy to bring your integrated infrastructure program to reality. 

Presenters: 

Jennifer H. Humphreys, AICP As a senior vice president and senior transportation planner for the firm, Jennifer is responsible for coordinating the activities of CDM Smith's full range of engineering, traffic, water resources, environmental, and planning staff in South Carolina. With a background in travel demand modeling and NEPA documentation, she has supported the development of feasibility studies, regional long range transportation plans, and environmental documents across the Southeast for over two decades. Bringing land use, economic, and travel demand data into the NEPA process, she has written a collection of environmental documents that have passed legal sufficiency reviews. She is also passionate about communicating these complex studies with the traveling public and elected officials. In addition to travel demand modeling, she has extensive experience managing transportation projects, including multiple regional freight mobility plans, major corridor studies, and statewide plans.  

Alex Beata, AICP is a transportation planner and project technical lead with CDM Smith. In this five years with the firm, Alex’s work has focused on transportation policy, tolling, grant funding, and advisory services. Prior to CDM Smith, Alex worked for local public agencies in the greater Chicago area, including the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways. Alex holds a master’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Paniz Miesen has 16 years of experience in the environmental sciences and water resources field focusing primarily on water quality, watershed management, funding, compliance, and risk and resilience, including climate resiliency. Her professional experiences range from watershed management, pollution source identification, and source water protection to risk management, hazard mitigation planning, and emergency response. She also has extensive experience with federal and state funding programs and regulatory compliance for a range of water and wastewater related project types. Ms. Miesen is an experienced communicator of technical information and is well versed in public outreach and education and stakeholder coordination.