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Ethics are complicated. Sometimes public works professionals are faced with difficult public policy choices that may stretch our ethical boundaries. Discover how to create and maintain an ethical culture in your agency.
Transportation departments continue to face serious challenges in meeting customer expectations for acceptable roadway surfacing and service. Today’s increased traffic loads exceed the original roadway design, especially those with asphalt surfaces. This session will present life-cycle cost data, case studies and lessons learned, and alternatives to paving.
Sponsored by APWA’s Engineering & Technology Committee Agencies and elected officials have been attracted by the prospect of turning fixed capital assets into income. Options range from placing advertising on transit shelters to offering long-term leases on major highways. Proponents see ways to boost return on public investments; skeptics see a diversion of public funds and depletion of a legacy.
Cities that have performance measurement systems have found it easier to prioritize and specify expected results, clarify intangibles, investigate failure, and are able to distinguish between aspirational and achievable results. This session will feature Public Works professionals with performance measurement systems who will discuss:
Sponsored by APWA's Solid Waste Management Committee Examine LEED certification success stories for the construction and operation of solid waste facilities. These facilities excel in handling construction waste, energy usage, lighting, indoor air quality, water conservation and truck wash water recycling, and open space development.
In Finland, a new evaluation method called “snow balance in street area” has been developed to help urban planners and designers calculate snow storage capacity in streets and how much needs to be transported away. Snow logistics are a cost for society and need to be incorporated into urban planning and sustainable development efforts.
What is employee engagement? Discover how to use coaching, mentoring, and other techniques to engage employees from all of the generations in the workforce and motivate them to do good work.
Using a geographic approach, the needs of all municipal assets (water, sewer, streets, storm drains, etc.) are managed in one coordinated, cohesive, and sustainable manner. This allows for opportunities to combine and fund infrastructure development together.
Join this exploration of public/private opportunities and the critical issues for sustainable public works projects in Mexico. The goals are investment potential, economic savings, fossil fuels savings, and reductions in greenhouse emissions.
Learn about the Prince William Environmental Mitigation Bank. Through the sale of stream credits on the open market, the county can restore miles of local, degraded and impacted stream corridors at no expense to the Prince William County taxpayer