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This engaging webinar will provide an overview of resources and programs that can guide local governments towards becoming more resilient, with a specific focus on the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program and the role of the “Chief Resilience Officer”.
Read MoreOver the past decade, technologies have been developed that enable cost-effective monitoring of remote sewer system assets like pipelines, manholes, and lift stations. Real-time remote monitoring places a powerful capital management tool in the hands of utility directors and managers.
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Certificants from the various APWA Certification programs will share their real-life stories on the challenges of the certification and testing process and the benefits accrued since obtaining their credential. Bring your questions and join in this helpful dialogue.
Read MoreSponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) and APWA's Center for Sustainability Cities of the future must employ a means to measure and ensure that public works and infrastructure projects contribute to the overall sustainability of the communities they serve. Don't miss this opportunity to network with Envision™ users and discuss the potential applications and uses for this infrastructure sustainability rating system.
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Hosted by APWA's Center for Sustainability Local governments need better information to promote decision making that reflects value-for-money comparisons of public investment proposals among various infrastructure projects. Join Center for Sustainability Leaders and others directly involved in creating more sustainable communities in a roundtable exchange and discussion to identify challenges, solutions, and needed resources. Participants will leave the roundtable with a better understanding of the process and tools through which non-cash costs and benefits, plus externalities, can be calculated and presented in monetary terms for “apples-to-apples” comparison, referred to as the Sustainable Return on Investment or SROI.
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Waterfront communities, along lakes, rivers, and oceans, share unique challenges when rehabilitating aging water infrastructure including making sure that such activities do not disrupt the local economy. Discover how low-impact structural cured-in-place pipe lining and a multi-channel communication campaign were used in one Minnesota community to minimize economic impacts.
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Many public works agencies are struggling to deliver services without the staffing levels they had in the past. Explore real-life examples of where contracting out to private service providers made sense, how the conversion from public agency staffing to private sector operations was completed, and the benefits, costs, and risks encountered.
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Everyone agrees that public works employees know what they’re doing and they do it well for the most part. Knowing what you do is one thing. Backing up that knowledge with documentation is the difference between just doing your job and gaining respect for what you do.
This program will give you an overview of the components and steps involved in becoming Accredited.
Stormwater management, specifically becoming an MS4 under NPDES Phase 2, tops the list as the biggest challenge facing small communities. In effort to inform and equip communities with lessons learned and some of the “how-to’s” to address this challenge, the Water Resources Management.
Read MoreSponsored by APWA's International Affairs Committee Presentation by Jennings Randolph International Fellow Review the respective management impacts on the waste compositions in the U.S. and the Czech/Slovak Republics. The composition results are evaluated for their utility in industry standard management practices including: recycling, tipping and user fees, recyclable sales, and the sociological impacts of waste management efforts.
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