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A unique insider's guide to how America is reinventing the way we plan, build, deliver, and maintain our essential services and civil infrastructure, much of which is fifty-plus years old, built for a smaller nation with out-of-date technologies. Our airports are ranked among the worst in the world, our water systems are failing, our transportation corridors are clogged. How will we finance the $3 trillion of work needed to keep America competitive in a global economy? Author Mary Scott Nabers has been working on this question for more than two decades as a matchmaker between public officials and the private sector contractors. She reports that today's innovative companies and forward-thinking public officials are reshaping how the US purchases and delivers public assets. The trends Nabers predicted six years ago in her first book, Collaboration Nation, have gained momentum, evolved, and matured into a sophisticated market for solutions for our infrastructure and public service needs. The new model is the public-private partnership--PPP or P3. Instead of taxpayers alone shouldering the financial burden and risk of replacing worn-out bridges, renovating schools, modernizing airports, and upgrading water systems, Nabers describes in detail the development of joint ventures that transfer risk and maintenance responsibility to private vendors under long-term contracts--with government retaining control and oversight. Inside The Infrastructure Revolution is filled with specific information and actual examples and case studies of public-private joint ventures, illustrating the opportunities and benefits as well as pitfalls to avoid. America has the capital, the tools, and the creativity to tackle this problem. Let the revolution begin!

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Mary Scott Nabers is president and CEO of Strategic Partnerships, Inc. (SPI), an Austin, Texas-based consulting firm that has been facilitating partnerships between public officials and the private sector since 1995, drawing on the knowledge and experience of its team of experts in government affairs, business development, procurement consulting, and communications. She served from 1992 to 1994 as a Texas State Railroad Commissioner, overseeing an agency that regulated the state's $65 billion energy and transportation complexes. Before that she served for eight years as the commissioner representing the business community on the Texas Employment Commission where she founded the Texas Business Council. She earned her MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. During her decade in state government, Nabers wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column, hosted a weekly radio program, and published a monthly business magaine with a circulation of 160,000. She currently publishes Texas Government Insider and a national publication, Government Contracting Pipeline. Nabers has represented Texas on the National Petroleum Council, the National Coal Council, and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact, among other organizations She has been a regular speaker at government and industry events for the past 25 years. Her first book, Collaboration Nation, published in 2012, introduced readers to the developing market for infrastructure joint ventures. Inside The Infrastructure Revolution explores how these joint ventures, called public-private partnerships, have evolved into increasingly sophisticated vehicles for improving our public services and rebuilding the public assets that are essential to our nation's prosperity.

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