Case Construction Equipment established a partnership with an infrastructure expert to tour the United States and bring awareness to the nation’s aging infrastructure.
The tour, titled “Dire States: The Drive to Revive America’s Ailing Infrastructure,” will make stops at Case dealers throughout the United States and bring together citizens, government officials and construction professionals to build a community dedicated to advancing infrastructure-related projects.
According to Case, it is bringing people together to identify new and innovative ways to spur the growth and development of U.S. infrastructure, and to showcase projects and communities that are already succeeding at it.
“America’s infrastructure is in trouble, and it’s not something we can gloss over when we see it on the nightly news,” says Dan McNichol, Case’s expert partner. “We’re going to barnstorm this country in an old and beat-down 1949 Hudson that is the perfect metaphor for our current infrastructure: it’s as old, rusty and energy defunct as our vital systems. Depending on this old car to get you to work every day is as foolish as depending on our current systems for everything we need to function as a society.”
The tour kicks off with a series of events in Massachusetts. It will include stops at Case dealers throughout the country, and it will culminate with an event in March at ConExpo-Con/Agg in Las Vegas. McNichol is expected to bring the tour to more than 20 Case dealerships.
