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In 2016, the City of Surrey, British Columbia, opened a new operations center consisting of three fully enclosed buildings: a 114,000 square foot operations facility, a 54,000 square foot fleet and garage building, and a 14,000 square foot warehouse. The operations facility is LEED Silver Certified and is 40% more energy efficient than a typical operations building. The fleet building is designed to be completely operational after post-disaster conditions and to serve as an emergency operations centre. In 2017, Surrey will be the home of the first fully-integrated organics waste management system in North America. The system includes the existing collection of residential organics waste by a fleet comprised of 100% compressed natural gas vehicles (CNG). Everything is up-to-date in Surrey!Learning Objectives: Promote industry-leading projects in public works that will inspire others to follow suit.Demonstrate the potential public works has to make our communities efficient and sustainable.Generate ideas and innovations and promote resource-sharing among public works professionals and agencies.
One of air pollution's primary causes is transportation. According to the USEPA, over 90% of the fuel used in transportation is petroleum-based. When the combustion of oil occurs, 50% of the total emissions are NOx. Discover how your agency can retrofit existing asphalt and concrete pavements-enabling them to function as a catalyst for changing NOx into harmless levels of nitrates. By impregnating existing pavements with a specially formulated titanium dioxide membrane activated by the sun, the pavements become NOx mitigating surfaces. Now public works can become part of the solution to NOx off emissions.Learning Objectives: Identify the cause of and the associated costs for much of the existing air pollution.Negotiate with private partners to achieve win-win P3 agreements.Anticipate and mitigate risks when entering into a P3 for infrastructure development.
A plant
that literally cracks concrete and asphalt will soon be cracking open the
wallets of American municipalities, landowners, and taxpayers. Japanese
knotweed is on the war path to dominate the landscape and expensive human
made structures cannot withstand its force! Billions of dollars of damage to
roads, bridges, building foundations, and sewer systems are coming down the
pipes (literally!) and can only be avoided with basic prevention measures.
The United Kingdom has been overrun and is currently trying to rally its
forces to combat this invasion, but the costs are totaling up to billions of
dollars their governments don't have. In North America, we have the
opportunity to get in front of this impending menace and, through prevention
of spread, keep our damage costs at a minimum. This plant is going to change
how municipalities do EVERYTHING, and you'll be one of the first in the
country to hear what's going to be happening on your turf in the coming
""Knotweed Apocalypse"". Discover what other countries have done to
protect themselves, and how you can ""Fight the ""Bamboo""""
where you live, too.
Learning Objectives:
Identify
the global threat posed by Japanese knotweed.
Implement prevention methods that will save billions of dollars.Coordinate with local organizations to ""Spread the Word, Not the Plant.""
Fossils, politics, endangered species, and a landfill-the $127 million La Pata Avenue Gap Closure project in Southern Orange County, California, encountered more challenges than they could have imagined during the initial planning phases. Establishing a connection between two major cities over rugged, undeveloped backcountry terrain required significant collaboration between many political and influential interest groups; the relocation of a landfill to a new site; 15 million cubic yards of earthwork; 117,383 tons of asphalt; extensive environmental mitigation; and accommodation of archaeological finds.Learning Objectives:Successfully coordinate a massive roadway connection project.Overcome funding challenges with creative solutions.Engage communities, agencies, and stakeholders to gain support for a controversial project.
This webinar will provide an overview of the national guidance on road diets and their potential benefits. Speakers will present information and/or case studies about determining the feasibility of road diets, planning or considering the implementation of road diets in a community, and evaluating the performance of road diets.
Vaughn is one of the fastest growing cities in Ontario, Canada. In 2016/2017, they embarked on a long-term, performance-based winter road maintenance contract. This marks a significant shift in the way winter road maintenance contracts have been structured, and it contains many innovative approaches that rethink the way winter maintenance services are delivered to residents. Find out more about their contract development process, how citizen experience evaluations are obtained, and the program's successes and pitfalls in this first contract year.Learning Objectives:Identify the lessons learned from Vaughn's winter road maintenance contract development process.Explore the many new approaches contained in the contract for improved operational performance and citizen experience.Evaluate how to establish a performance-based contract that includes quality control and assurance, and better contract oversight.
Is everyone on the same page when it comes to making operational weather decisions at your agency? With today's plethora of information and quick communication tools, many agencies are realizing…
Prior to 2012, the City of La Quinta, California, was a very ""top down"" organization largely run by the city manager and executive team. In an effort to meet the challenges for delivering more with less and reinventing the way the city does business, they embarked on an effort to increase employee empowerment, and improve business metrics, quicker response times, and greater transparency. By engaging all levels of the organization in decision-making and creative problem-solving, they have achieved higher morale, less manager burnout, and an agency better prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century.Learning Objectives::Achieve greater productivity and improve morale by empowering staff.Allow managers and supervisors time to plan and think strategically by pushing some decisions down to line staff who are closest to the work being performed.Use technology to leverage staff and make government more responsive and transparent to the public.
Learn the nuts and bolts of how to orchestrate and host a successful Roadeo. Regional, state and national Snow Equipment Roadeos are becoming a popular way for public works staff…
While water and wastewater systems typically have dedicated funding resources to address system issues, identifying and choosing the most cost-effective approach to stormwater management can be a struggle. Risk-based asset management is quickly becoming a preferred business process for municipal public works programs. This session will review asset management evaluations completed for several municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) and other agencies, including case studies for risk-based projects performed for Washington, D.C.; Chesterfield County, Virginia; and the Georgia Department of Transportation. Use of GIS paired with a risk-based approach to stormwater system asset management can help communities and agencies more efficiently inventory their assets, and determine the current physical state and performance capabilities of each asset.Learning Objectives:Describe the key elements for conducting a risk-based stormwater asset management assessmentEvaluate new technologies to streamline field data collectionDiscover technology that can be used to develop a cost-effective stormwater capital improvement program (CIP)