Soliman Abu-Samra discusses North America's current infrastructure state and governments' challenges. Hence-after, he proposes management/funding solutions to minimize the steeply growing deficits and enhance the infrastructure level of service. Finally, he visualizes the cost of taking wrong decisions and ends it with a wake-up call by explaining how "The cost of inaction in the infrastructure world could reach tens of trillions of dollars…"
Soliman Abu-Samra is a motivated civil engineer with blended professional and academic experience in project and infrastructure asset management. Soliman has pursued his bachelor’s and master’s degree in construction management with highest honors from Egypt and he is currently working towards his doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Civil Engineering at Concordia University. Throughout his academic career, he has published numerous books and journal and conference articles about establishing proper management systems for multiple infrastructure assets and construction operations. Alternatively, his professional experience in mega-scale worldwide projects has framed the real-life problems municipalities and contractors are presently facing while managing their assets. Soliman’s talk revolved around identifying the municipalities’ challenges in managing their assets and introducing practical solutions for both enhancing the level of service and extending the infrastructure life cycle.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
