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Riverfront and Downtown Revitalization

Muscatine, Iowa, historically known as the “Pearl City” or “The Button Factory of the World,” is rich in cultural and ethnic diversity, rooted in industrial beginnings that shaped the city’s…

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The Pressure is On—Lead and Copper Rule Revisions

The City of Olathe is leading the way in Kansas for compliance under the revised Lead and Copper Rule. With over 37,000 service lines and no existing records, they created…

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West Michigan Water Career Program: A Novel Approach to Recruitment

In 2022, Grand Rapids Community College, partnering with Bay College and the City of Grand Rapids, received a $500K grant awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, specifically focusing on…

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A Better Version of Yourself: A Path Toward Transcendental Leadership

Transcendental leadership is the epitome of leadership. It places the leader’s focus on the service to those around them and those external to the organization for which they work. The…

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Collaboration in Alternative Delivery – $65M Kansas River WWTP Upgrade

When the City of Lawrence, Kansas, faced a $65M upgrade to their wastewater treatment plant, the city knew that collaborative delivery would be a critical tool for success. Initiating a…

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Drones in Public Works—How to Get Started? How Can They Help?

The use of drones in public works is exploding for good reasons. Anytime you can do something that is safer, easier to use, and lower cost, it almost always results…

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Going from Manual Workflows to Modern Data Practices with Live Reports

The City of Eagan, Minnesota, uses many types of software to help manage its physical and data assets. As the technological environment has grown and evolved, some software products have…

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Intercepting Chaos: Effective Management Can Make Your Project Flow

The Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) was charged with decommissioning its 24 MGD Chesapeake-Elizabeth Treatment Plant (CETP) due to regulatory requirements set by the EPA. To meet these requirements without…

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Medical District Drive—How Partnering Delivers a Better Project

The Medical District Drive project improves multimodal access to Dallas’s Medical District by reconstructing the road between Southwestern Medical Avenue and Interstate Highway 35E. The Complete Street expansion entails six…

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Roadmap to Readiness: Prepare Your Organization BEFORE the Disruption

The local government workplace, and certainly public works agencies, are facing increasingly more and unique disruptors in these ever changing times. These disruptors can take the form of natural disasters,…

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