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Quantifying Pavement Rehabilitation Impacts to Improve Work Zone Planning

Roadway maintenance and rehabilitation are critical tasks to sustain our transportation system. However, these activities often generate delays to road users, which can result in road user costs, work zone…

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Maximizing the Client/Consultant Relationship

APWA’s Small Cities / Rural Communities Committee invites you to join them for a conversation about the client/consultant relationship. Due to limited staff and available resources, small cities / rural…

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The Power of Relationships in Project Delivery

Have you ever consciously thought about how relationships affect your projects? A relationship-based culture can bring about the best collective action of a team to meet project goals. The Mile…

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Navigating a Complicated Project Needs a Great Map and May Include Some Wrong Turns

Completing Shawnee, Kansas’ Nieman Now program ($37 million of public improvements in five projects, with four design consultants and three contractors, within a two-year window) involved a lot more than…

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The Kenneth Road Bridge Replacement – Overcoming a 3-Ring Circus of Challenges in a Federally-Funded, Multi-State, Multi-Jurisdictional Project

The Kenneth Road Bridge has faced political, financial, environmental, technical, and construction challenges which have impeded the reconstruction of a federally-funded bridge that spans a state line and lies within…

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Why Being a Good Client Matters

Have you ever wondered what designers and builders think about their clients or why it matters? David Skuodas works as a project manager in the owner role in the public…

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Robotic Remote Sensing – Capturing Reality & Delivering Solutions

Drones or Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are having positive effects on the design and maintenance of public facilities and infrastructure. However, this is not the only robotic platform that can…

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The City of Houston – TEXAS Size Smart School Zone Project

For the City of Houston, maintaining and updating school times for over 1,400 individual flashing school zone beacons is a major task. The City must physically touch each beacon at…

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What Is Your Plan to Manage All That Debris?

In 2016, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works developed the Operational Area Mass Debris Management Plan (OA MDMP). The purpose of the OA MDMP is to establish coordinated…

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When an International Event Comes to Town: The Role of Public Works in the October 2019 Democratic Debate

What happens when CNN, The New York Times, and 12 candidates for President of the United States come to town? A lot. Now, imagine having four weeks to plan for…

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