Climate change and the heat it is generating is putting public infrastructure at risk of deterioration and failure. Roads, power lines, railways and batteries are among things threatened by the risk excessive heat poses for the steel, concrete and asphalt and other materials from which with many technologies and systems are made. Mikhail Chester, a professor in School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and director of ASU’s Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering, says engineers are capable of redesigning infrastructure to withstand higher temperatures, but the costs would be high and keeping up with the mounting effects of climate change would be especially challenging.