The Biden Administration has the right idea overall in terms of a Go Big infrastructure initiative, but three months into the process, it is leaking political capital at a mortal pace.

This happens with every Administration, but President Joe Biden and team promised that it wouldn’t happen this time—and it is still not too late. Industry must step in and guide the process toward the overall goal—and it is urgent—to develop key building blocks of a sustained, well-financed and world-class initiative.

两党制是这些基本构件的首要组合。基础设施不是民主或共和党的事情。这是美国的骄傲和喜悦，我们的机会和经济增长的引擎以及我们国家的真实面孔！

In my new book想象：Our Strategic Infrastructure Roadmap Forward，，，，I highlight a handful of key themes that are critical to a successful infrastructure initiative. These I identified by examining successful programs around the world built on having the right players at the table, robust funding, disruptive leadership and proactive policy—with digitization, electrification and innovative technology also as vital components.

什么伟大的基础设施确实为什么每个se themes is critical—is that it brings people together around hope for better lives, increased work opportunities and a vision of a more prosperous future.

My favorite current example of the power of great infrastructure is the magnificent new Moynihan Station at New York City’s Penn Station rail hub. I visited it last week. The station is set to catalyze revitalization of its aging west Manhattan neighborhood. Infrastructure investment creates shared public good—which we can see, touch and benefit from—and it gives us a tactile measure of our progress in creating that better future.

Looking at these key themes, it is valuable—and very urgent—to insist that the infrastructure community be at the table to maintain focus and breathe life into the Biden initiative.

向前付款

It is an unforced error that slows everything down to focus on taxes as a way to pay for long-term infrastructure investment. The president is recognizing that fact.

前财政部长拉里·萨默斯（Larry Summers）在最近的一篇文章中指出，这种方法的几种危险之一 - “目前由未来税收筹集的支出可能会进一步刺激已经过度过热的经济。”团结融资问题并吸引所有人的一种方法是，将我们的储蓄投入到战斗中，直接将30万亿美元的养老基金资产中的一些用于泵浦Prime的战略投资。

从学校和高压传输到VA医院和电动汽车充电站，拜登基础设施计划的多达50％已经是私人投资的省。我还没有看到政府拥有或融资的费用站，迄今为止，我还没有遇到挑战。

Successful infrastructure initiatives shift the landscape, creating a new model for getting projects done.

尚不清楚拜登政府的更好地建立程序可以做到这一点，尽管它正在朝着正确的方向发展。当有远见的领导者驱动时，范式的变化会使行动发挥作用。

Public sector executives, the finance community and business leaders—specifically in engineering and construction and including technology innovators—all come together in a "golden triangle" to get things done. They build success-based relationships that last for years, even a lifetime, and gain strength as they move from one successful project to the next.

New Rules of the Game

A real initiative requires new rules of the game and a game-changing policy direction. The objective of policy must to create trust around project funding and execution. The Biden infrastructure initiative is not strong enough in this area.

Users and taxpayersneed to believethat projects will be built on time and on budget. Small, large and especially institutional investorsneed to knowthat approvals will be efficient and predictable. And everyone需要信任所有参与的人都是高度称职，实用和承诺的。

正确的政策，无论是集中于环境影响，利益相关者权益还是项目生产力，或所有三个工作，因为它们已经完成，都可以最大化可见的公共利益。

在任何现代行业中，创新都是至关重要的，但对于下一代基础设施至关重要。所有事物的数字化和电气化（从触觉到雷达到智能雷达）都驱动了格林菲尔德的新级别和类型的性能andbrownfield projects.

一座桥梁可能持续30年，但是必须在每个季度更新必须启用自主权的5G软件。Biden倡议如何解决并促进这种创新水平？

To create the new reality, industry must step in to put some necessary spine into the bipartisanship ideal. The drift to politicization creates three toxic realities: the long view so critical for infrastructure is lost; the bureaucracy, with its capacity to mortally gum up the works, is confused; and investment channels that are so allergic to election cycle uncertainty, dry up. We cannot allow this.

呼吁采取行动

We need mechanisms on the public side that propel ready two-way conversation and rapid action—based on real authority.

想一想实施基础设施倡议的州长，私人高管，市政官员和公民将做出的数千个决定。自从内燃引擎出现以来，当我们处于最伟大的工业革命的风口浪尖范围内时，政客需要基础设施专家的帮助来做出这些决定。

There should be a Strategic Infrastructure Office created immediately in the White House that brings everyone together, provides disruptive leadership, shapes policy, drives innovative financing and really listens to what industry and all stakeholders have to say. Without it, the administration’s effort to construct a U.S. infrastructure program that is sustained, globe-leading and able to truly reshape our economy will not reach the potential that all of us envision.

Norman Anderson is chairman and CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure, a Washington, D.C.-based strategy and project development firm. He is a frequent speaker on global infrastructure issues and author of the just-published book想象：Our Strategic Infrastructure Roadmap Forward，，，，available now in print and digital versions atAmazonand other outlets. Anderson can be reached atnorman@cg-la.com