Curriculum Development for Infrastructure-Construction Education

Underground infra-structural construction work that will be undertaken in the U.S in the coming future will be fundamentally different from the type of construction work that has been typical in the past.This paper focuses on detailing what changes are to be expected in the nature and technologies of future infra-structural construction work and what a new curriculum to respond to these expected changes needs to look like to ensure competency for future students in such work in the future.justifying and financing underground infra-structural construction, use of information technologies to facilitate and enhance integration of structural designs and construction methods, and use of information flow for construction management and training will increasingly be the norm.These changes expected in future underground construction work puts an onerous responsibility on construction educators, administrators, advisory boards, and other entities involved with curriculum design, development, and integration to chart an active path to respond to these changes.No longer can we passively react to what is transpiring.Construction education must be modified appropriately to respond to the impending changes in a timely and coherent manner.