Cardinal Infrastructure is a leading bipartisan federal advisory group specializing in transportation, infrastructure, and economic development. Our clients include public transit agencies, cities, regional authorities, private sector businesses, and nonprofit organizations.
Our clients will attest to our knowledge and skill in developing effective business, legislative, and regulatory strategies that bring tangible results. Our firm has decades of experience successfully navigating the statutory, regulatory, funding, and political processes, and communicating client’s priorities to relevant federal stakeholders and public entities.
We advise and counsel clients on a spectrum of vital services – from initial and advanced policy and planning considerations to regulatory compliance, financing, risk assessment, contracting, and procurement. Following legislation being signed into law, Cardinal has worked to implement policy through comments and advocacy on proposed rules, regulations, and guidance documents.
We focus on transportation, infrastructure, and economic development projects that require collaboration with the U.S. Departments of Transportation, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy, as well as the Small Business Administration, Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, the White House, and the congressional committees that authorize and appropriate funds for these departments.
Cardinal Infrastructure assists in expediting the federal grant process and provides thorough reviews of federal rules and regulations affecting proposed or existing projects. Working in conjunction with federal agencies, we advise clients on how to satisfy planning, environmental and other federal grant requirements. We also provide technical and management advice during the planning, engineering, and construction phases of project development, continuously consulting with senior federal agency staff in headquarters and regional offices on the status and merits of proposed projects.
Our firm is consistently monitoring legislative and regulatory developments, maintaining continual awareness of the work of congressional and Administration staff. As a firm that exclusively works on transportation and infrastructure matters, we have the unique ability to track public transit issues in real-time and report relevant updates to our clients.
With decades of experience in government affairs and managing issues related to public transportation, our team — both individually and collectively — has maintained a process to help ensure reliable and consistent results for our clients.