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Examine how to use asset management, sustainability, and innovation principles to identify and prioritize activities based on age/condition, types of delivery methods, financing, aesthetics, and phasing for all types of infrastructure projects.
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Construction meetings in the design-build environment are often adversarial. Everyone collaborates during the design phase, but once the low bid is awarded, the owner and contractor are left to wrangle over the bottom line. Discover how one agency is dealing with this through an alternative delivery method call Project Partners.
Read MoreThe City of Sacramento is achieving its carbon reduction goals by converting the refuse-hauling fleet from diesel to LNG and CNG and being the first U.S. city to collect and divert food waste, send it through the Sacramento Biodigester and fuel the refuse fleet by the waste that it normally hauls.
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Atlanta’s Streetcar plans will improve access between core sites in downtown Atlanta, and with connections to the MARTA, Atlanta Beltline and other transportation services that will create easier access to outlying areas.
Read MoreUsing the design and construction of the new 36,000 South Florida Water Management environmental services lab as a case study, this presentation will demonstrate how effective use of web-based project management tools improved project quality and scheduling and reduced costs.
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Using snow balance, cost and carbon dioxide emission comparisons, cities in Finland are moving towards short hauling for snow. Examine the drainage, soil properties, environmental, and aesthetic considerations.
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Sponsored by APWA's Public Works Historical Society (PWHS) Toronto's waterfront is the most dynamic landscape in Canada's largest city. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the original harbour was reshaped and the shoreline extended to enhance Toronto's status as a railway hub and port. In the post-industrial era, emphasis has been placed on housing, recreation and green development.
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Delegating tasks is a vital survival skill for managers, whether you manage an entire organization, department, team, or project. Explore how to delegate, have confidence in others, and increase the competence of staff.
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Step-It-Up Charleston: Efforts to Reduce Lost Productivity by Improving Employee Cardiovascular Heal
Charleston County, South Carolina issued pedometers to employees asking them to keep track of steps taken in both work and leisure time. Daily goals were set and awards for most steps per week and consistent goal achievement were given. Learn how using incentives and competition can improve employee health and morale.
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Sponsored by APWA’s Diversity Committee Working women continue to make career decisions that impact their ability to “rise to the top.” Men and women often take different paths to leadership. A panel of successful women will talk about the strengths, career decisions, mistakes, and struggles they encountered as they built satisfying careers in public works. Both men and women will want to engage in this discussion of what it takes to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment.
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