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SC/RC Perspective: Tackling Sustainability Challenges in Small Cities and Rural Communities

Frequently, large cities and highly urbanized metro areas celebrate community sustainability efforts or Smart Growth. However, it can be tougher to find prominent sustainability practices in America’s smaller towns and…

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The Future of the Interstate Highway System

The Interstate Highway System is the backbone of our country’s transportation system. Representing only 1 percent of the total U.S. public road mileage, it carries over 25 percent of all…

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Resilient and Ready to Build Royal Value for Residents and Rate-Payers Utility Coordination for the Queen City’s Capital Improvement Program – A Royal Partnership

While the potential for utility delays is a well-known risk for all municipal capital projects, how you tackle these risks can have monumental impacts on the operational efficiencies of utility…

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Utility Damage Investigations

Municipalities face the continuous problem of dealing with utility damages, both from excavators striking their utility lines and their own crews striking other utilities.  This can cost the Municipality anywhere…

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Women in Public Works, We Lead from the Ground Too!

Gender diversity in the operations end of public works is shockingly poor. Women make up less than 10 percent of the workforce but even this figure includes those who work…

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LTAP & APWA – Stronger Together

In this educational session, you will meet the new National LTAP Association President and hear from a panel of Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Center Directors. The partnership between APWA…

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Rapid Deployment, via – the Award-Winning and Industry Changing Two-Day ‘Kick-Off’ Meeting, aka – “How to Build and Lead Highly Effective Teams”

“Every organization rises or falls based on leadership or the lack thereof”, said the legendary co-inventor of frozen concentrated orange juice, C.D. Atkins. According to the Federal Highway Administration, owners…

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Making Presentations to Educate and Convince Leaders about Public Works

This session addresses the practical applications, critical issues, emerging trends, innovative approaches, and best practices for creating/delivering presentations for public works leaders. Examples of successful presentations will be supplied and…

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Learn to Better Manage Conflict and Reach Collaborative Solutions

We all deal with conflict in our lives and work, and most of us struggle with dysfunctional conflict. Would it surprise you to learn that many successful negotiators find conflict…

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Shall We Play a Game: Win As Much As You Can

In WarGames, a 1983 American Cold War science-fiction techno-thriller, David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly accesses a U.S. military supercomputer (WOPR) programmed to execute nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Important…

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