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Resilient infrastructure depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover disruptive events. A learning organization empowers its people to guide, influence and manage transformations and adapt its capacity to the changing environment. Can you have infrastructure resilience without being a learning organization?
Read MorePermeable Paver Streets Are Not Parking Lots – Successes and Challenges with Permeable Paver Streets
Here’s a case study focusing on the performance of two different permeable paver streets. We’ll discuss the design elements of each, good and bad maintenance experiences and the performance documented thus far. Attempted remedial measures will be described in detail including the costs and effectiveness of each.
Read MoreIn working with neighboring communities to establish a regional bicycle master plan, the City of Redondo Beach set out to create a sense of welcome at the city’s boundary, improve the visitor experience, attract customers to the pier, and improve the driver and pedestrian experience. The scope included signalized intersections to regulate bicycle traffic, specialized marking and pavement treatments.
Read MoreSponsored by APWA’s Small Cities Rural Communities Committee Bring your questions and benefit from the lessons-learned by other public works professionals who have been through the process of choosing funding options for a stormwater management program. Figure out if establishing a stormwater utility would work for your agency.
Read MoreThe three pillars for sustainable management of infrastructure include: stewardship, asset management, and financial planning. In Australia, local governments account for their infrastructure in their financial statements. It is about balancing priorities, risks, levels of service and available funding to move beyond technical management assets to incorporate stewardship and long-term financial planning.
Read MoreLeduc County’s Nisku Spine Road project is its first attempt at implementing a value-based project delivery system developed by researchers at Arizona State University. Using the process, proposal evaluation time was reduced by 75%. The main advantage of the process was its ability to simplify contractor selection through the alignment of project expertise.
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This presentation will share findings from a study conducted by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering on behalf of CTDOT on winter highway maintenance best practices. The study examines practices on material use, impact of chemicals, corrosion, performance, safety, cost and identification of advanced methods and materials.
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While the phrases “social media”, “emergency management”, and “public works” are not always seen as relating to each other, in reality they should. This presentation will provide participants some fundamentals about social media including information on the different types of social media, aspects that should be taken into consideration when selecting a media, and pointers for starting out.
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