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What is a smart city? Explore how cities are using a multi-department strategy to use data to provide better city services and improve the day-to-day experience of residents. This session will feature the lessons learned during the installation of Kansas City’s smart city infrastructure and the strategies being deployed in other cities’ smart city initiatives.
Read MoreThis session features best practices for Winter Maintenance from around the world. Techniques and approaches to be disussed will aid in the planning for more effective and resilient infrastructure and public works services. Topics will include funding/budgeting, better asset management, improvig employee retention and reducing training and human resources costs.
Read MoreThe Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) released the Envision rating system in 2012. It is a collection of best practices to help infrastructure professionals make better decisions during the lifecycle of all types of infrastructure. ISI considers resilience as a component of sustainability and defines resilience as the ability to successfully adapt to and/or recover readily from significant disruption. In the updated version of Envision, ISI has significantly expanded the Envision credits in terms of risk management, energy and emissions, climate change, durability and adaptability, recovery and synergies, and sustaining innovation. This presentation will introduce the new Envision v3 resilience credits and provide case study examples.
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Road salts are entering the environment in large amounts and posing a risk to plants, animals, birds, fish, lake/stream ecosystems, and groundwater. The City of Barrie, Ontario, has found that concentrations of sodium and chloride for certain supply wells are trending upward near the point of exceeding Ontario Drinking Water Standards. The City has developed a Salt Optimization Strategy to identify opportunities to maintain safe surfaces for pedestrian and vehicular traffic while minimizing the environmental impacts of salt application.
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Some agencies have been using liquids for a number of years and are now implementing various advanced techniques. Among the new techniques being tried are liquid blends; using two different chlorides and adding carbohydrate liquids to brines; using advanced systems to ensure trucks are loaded correctly with the right materials and the right quantities; and using liquids to create slurries at high pre-wetting rates.
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Talking Top Tech: Asset Management Edition – Thursday, July 19, 2018
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Join us for a look at Asset Management through the perspective of different lenses including Public Works, Consultants, and International. Leaders in each field will participate in a panel discussion and answer APWA member questions.
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Successful implementation of new technology is improved by in-depth product research and communicating with the team members that are tasked with regular use of the product. We’ll provide real-life examples of successful and not-so-successful implementation of new technologies and the reasons for success or failure. We’ll also review how to achieve buy-in from front-line personnel and other stakeholders as new technologies are introduced.
Read MoreUnexpected utility conflicts and associated damages consistently rank as a leading source of change orders and schedule delays on transportation projects. As the need for utilities to occupy highway right-of-way increases, the demand for innovation in contracting increases. The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) recently completed $300 million design-build project using SUE as the primary utility coordination and relocation framework. The project included reconstruction of highways, major arterials, and interchanges over 2.5 years. Join in this discussion about lessons learned from all views including the property owner, design-builder, the utility owners and utility coordinators.
Read MoreEven in the most well run organizations there seem to be certain employees that are allowed to perform at subpar levels. Why is that? They may have a supervisor that lacks the skills to take on the challenge of addressing performance issues. Most supervisors find they have to address this situation very few times in their career, sometimes years apart. Consequently, each time feels like a new journey into uncharted waters. Learn about a system that will help you efficiently address employee shortcomings, clearly communicate the improvements needed, and if necessary, build the paper trail that human resources requires for removal.
Read MoreSince its first publication a decade ago, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)’s American Infrastructure Report Cards have shed an ignoble light on the state of infrastructure in many states. Attention has mostly been on transportation and water infrastructure without as much attention to aging facilities as much as parks, recreational fields, municipal office buildings, pumping stations, fleet operations, etc. This presentation will feature a case study from Southeastern Michigan about an infrastructure condition and prioritization technique.
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