A Good Infrastructure

Building a solid infrastructure takes years of planning and modification. Good freeways and city roads have to be carefully thought out and planned before construction can begin. Every detail has to be considered when starting new state and local building projects so that those who come after won't have to make major changes to the system in place. Roads and power lines also have to have a flexible arrangement plan so that they could be modified if the population and demographics of an area change rapidly over the course of a few years.

Many different departments have input on city and state building plans. The local governments need to make sure the project will meet their population's needs. The builders and contractors have to ensure that the right materials are bought for the job.

What is infrastructure?

Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise,^[1] or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.^[2]

The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can be defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions."^[3]

Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production of goods and services, and also the distribution of finished products to markets, as well as basic social services such as schools and hospitals; for example, roads enable the transport of raw materials to a factory.^[4] In military parlance, the term refers to the buildings and permanent installations necessary for the support, redeployment, and operation of military forces.^[5]