Infrastructure Week 2024
May 13-17
For more than a decade, a bipartisan steering committee of infrastructure champions has organized a national advocacy and education week to promote and celebrate our nation’s roads, rails, pipes, ports, and more. Infrastructure Week is a week where varied interests, from organized labor to Chamber of Commerce leaders, elected officials and treatment plant operators, can all come together to have a discussion about challenges and opportunities in the infrastructure space.
Infrastructure Week 2024 will be held from May 13-17 to highlight the implementation of projects made possible by the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). With nearly $400 billion in funding and over 40,000 projects across 4,500 communities deployed across the country, the BIL is creating high quality jobs and connecting communities, which is why this year’s theme is United for Infrastructure: Invest. Permit. Build.
How to Get Involved
Our Infrastructure Week Calendar is THE central hub for infrastructure events and a great way to get more attention for your work.
Getting your organization’s event added is simple — just tell us what you’re planning (even if some of the details are TBD). It can be as simple as media posts or as big as a series of events. Some people pitch interviews with local press or place op-eds. Others open their facilities for tours to the public or the media. Some people find Infrastructure Week to be a good time to release a video about their infrastructure project, or bring an elected official in to see how your infrastructure project is benefitting taxpayers and local residents.
Share the details of your plans with us, so that we can help amplify your event via our Calendar and on social media.
There is no fee for participating!
Five Examples of How to Get Involved
Open up a facility for a day, bring in the public, the media, or local elected officials to tour your water treatment plant, airport, construction project, or whatever asset you want to show off. Open-press tours that take people “behind the scenes” of something most folks don’t get to see every day are very popular and a great way to spread the word about Infrastructure Week. If your construction project is using federal dollars, you can invite Representatives or Senators to tour it as well.
Videos and virtual tours are a great option for site locations that are too inaccessible or not safe for tours. Videos and virtual tours can be produced in advance and shared on social media. Tag our Twitter (@United4Infra) or LinkedIn account so we can help amplify!
Pitch your principal to the local press for an in-person interview or place an op-ed about recent infrastructure investments or upcoming projects that tie into the national movement around Infrastructure Week. For an added hook, if there is funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) explain how that historic investment is benefiting your specific community. Many Americans may not know how federal dollars are allocated locally, so bringing local projects to life is an important part of this year’s theme, United for Infrastructure: Invest. Permit. Build.
Host a breakfast or lunch panel with varied stakeholder voices about infrastructure in your community: organized labor, the local chamber of commerce or a business leader, your mayor or county executive, and the principals in charge of major infrastructure and transportation projects like your regional transit authority, airport, or water utilities. Invite local leaders to engage in a discussion on how your infrastructure project is benefitting taxpayers and local residents.
Host a job/career fair in partnership with your local workforce board, trades council, school district, and/or community college highlighting local training and employment opportunities within the skilled trades available to your residents.
Who Participates?
Any organization, business, non-profit organization, government or elected official who has an interest in supporting infrastructure can participate.
Over the years, hundreds of organizations have celebrated Infrastructure Week in their own way. Past participants include:
Water utilities
Engineering firms
Airports
Members of Congress
Mayors and City Halls
Labor unions
Workforce agencies
Local Chambers of Commerce
Chapters of the American Society of Civil engineers
Think tanks
Non-profit organizations
Companies in adjacent sectors and more.
About Us and Our Steering Committee
United for Infrastructure, program of Accelerator for America Action, and has advocated for investment in infrastructure for more than a decade. Led by its Steering Committee of diverse organizations, United for Infrastructure has been a convener of business, labor, government, policy leaders and more through its signature week of action “Infrastructure Week,” a presidential candidate forum on infrastructure issues in 2020, and regional summits on the urgency and importance of infrastructure.
United for Infrastructure's signature “Infrastructure Week” programming convenes diverse thought leaders who find consensus on the need to move our country’s infrastructure forward. Our Steering Committee is comprised of: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department, American Society of Civil Engineers, Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, Value of Water Campaign, North America’s Building Trades Unions, and National League of Cities.