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Motivated by the fiscal crisis, 19 northern Cook County and Lake County municipalities have formed a new business model where they work together to purchase shared services and commodities. In the first year alone, they achieved significant savings for the taxpayers.
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Sponsored by APWA’s Small Cities Rural Communities Committee Public works departments in small cities and rural communities often face challenges in advocating for federal, state, and community support for issues and funding related to critical services and infrastructure. Attend this session and get practical ideas and tools to engage elected officials and bring positive results for your agency.
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The Village of Streamwood, Illinois, replaced full depth asphalt and granular base with roller-compacted concrete (RCC). The RCC provides a stronger base, and the village estimates at least an initial 15 per cent savings in design, and a longer service life with less maintenance.
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A Grassroots Approach to Sustainable Projects While Nurturing Future Generations of Systems-Thinking
Sponsored by APWA’s Center for Sustainability Learn about a unique approach, taken by a local government and their consultant, to give senior year engineering students the opportunity to interact with public works professionals and to play a key role in developing innovative approaches to a sustainable stormwater harvesting project.
Read MoreExamine the steps to creating an effective capital plan for water/wastewater infrastructure, including conducting system inventories and asset management lists, identifying existing deficiencies, determining system life, developing multi-year improvement programs, and identifying acceptable funding mechanisms.
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Street, water, and wastewater crews for the City of El Segundo, California, are using tablet applications to revolutionize operation activities. They are able to graphically document the locations and frequency for maintenance activities and emergencies.
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Sponsored by APWA's Solid Waste Management Committee Current solid waste management systems are not equipped to accommodate predicted trends of increasing population and consumption. Explore how a cap and trade system would cap levels for overall waste production and reward the most efficient states through trading credits.
Read MoreExamine the City of Baltimore’s Integrated Planning Framework (IPF), which is based on a triple bottom line approach where all projects are evaluated against economic, environmental, and social criteria.
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Sponsored by APWA’s Government Affairs Committee Summer 2013 will mark the one-year anniversary of MAP-21. Part One of this session will review the initial year implementation of the bill’s project delivery streamlining provisions. Part Two will look forward, as MAP-21 is only a two-year bill. Panelists will discuss the framework for the successor legislation to MAP-21.
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Learn how Cupertino, California, incorporated innovative and practical applications of GIS, QR code and smartphone technologies to identify and protect street trees while also educating and engaging the community. Inventorying Cupertino’s nearly 14,000 trees was both a beginning and catalyst to improvement of their urban forest.
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