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United Bridge Partners is a private capital fund and engineering collective that rebuilds defunct bridges around the United States.
Challenge
Today, approximately 25% of all existing bridges in America are qualified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. According to reports compiled by the Federal Highway Administration, that puts the total of defunct bridges at 130,000, the cost of which to replace sitting at a tight $123 billion. With government funding being grossly insufficient to handle the task of rebuilding, UBP was formed to start chipping away at the problem. Partnering with American Infrastructure Funds (a private investment firm specializing in infrastructure, real property and natural resources and managing assets of $1.8 billion) and FIGG (the largest bridge-focused engineering firm in the country) UBP has developed and refined a proprietary model for sourcing, financing, building and operating private toll bridges.
Basically what they do is source structurally defunct bridges across the country and offer to finance, build and maintain bridges within municipalities across the U.S. For cities and communities that do not have the funds to fix bridges themselves and are far down the line for federal funding (not to mention the build project itself, which could take over a decade to complete) partnering with UBP would seem like a no brainer.
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Solution
Analogy was brought in the help explain the UBP value proposition. We determined very quickly a simple yet imperative solution: to capture the imagination of the people and leave them awed. We do extensive research on the culture and lifestyle of the communities where build projects are to take place. We design bridges that the people would be proud of. Sometimes that comes in the form of sleek, modern, colorful works of art that not only revives the sentiments of the locals but attracts tourism from abroad. Often we decide to compliment the native atmosphere, augmenting the natural beauty and diversity of the American landscape. Adding smart sensors, walk/bike paths, environmentally conscious materials and waste collection methods, we are fixing a major problem in America and making it better and beautiful.
Cities and businesses need bridges for travel and commerce, but citizens need them for their day-to-day commute. Why not make the everyday extraordinary?