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Women represent just 4 percent of the workforce in natural resources, construction, and maintenance. By increasing outreach to attract more women into public works careers, a community can increase diversity in the qualified applicant pool. We’ll discuss the challenges women face in careers in the infrastructure trades and suggest ways for employers to be intentional about developing a diverse workplace culture.
Read MoreDo's and Don'ts of Implementing Fully Automated Garbage & Recycling Collection
Commerce City, Colorado has rolled out new residential trash and recycling collection services, switching to a fully automated system which reduces environmental impacts, improves neighborhood appearances and continues to provide quality pick-up service as the city grows.
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Development of an effective winter operations plan can be a good start before proposing operational changes. Not only can it help guide many of your decisions, but since the document will ideally be based upon the expectations of your elected body and the public, it should help support any goals you are striving to achieve.
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Having a complete Winter Operations Plan and Manual provides for consistency, continuity, increased operational efficiency and effectiveness, and better environmental practices. This presentation will feature an outline that agencies can use to develop or update their Winter Weather Operations Plans.
Read MoreJoin this program, brought to you by the APWA Water Resources Committee to learn about tools to help you develop a formal asset management system.
Each discipline within Public Works operations have assets for which we are responsible. Those assets vary from community to community. Public Works professionals have been managing them for years; so why do we need to develop a formal asset management system? This session will address how a formal system will benefit your operations, how to begin a formal asset management system, how to utilize computer based software as part of your formal asset management system and include another public entity’s lessons learned.
Read MoreThis presentation walks through the process for planning and scoping a geotechnical site investigation for horizontal directional drilling, auger boring, and micro-tunneling.
Read MoreResilient infrastructure depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover disruptive events. A learning organization empowers its people to guide, influence and manage transformations and adapt its capacity to the changing environment. Can you have infrastructure resilience without being a learning organization?
Read MorePermeable Paver Streets Are Not Parking Lots – Successes and Challenges with Permeable Paver Streets
Here’s a case study focusing on the performance of two different permeable paver streets. We’ll discuss the design elements of each, good and bad maintenance experiences and the performance documented thus far. Attempted remedial measures will be described in detail including the costs and effectiveness of each.
Read MoreIn working with neighboring communities to establish a regional bicycle master plan, the City of Redondo Beach set out to create a sense of welcome at the city’s boundary, improve the visitor experience, attract customers to the pier, and improve the driver and pedestrian experience. The scope included signalized intersections to regulate bicycle traffic, specialized marking and pavement treatments.
Read MoreSponsored by APWA’s Small Cities Rural Communities Committee Bring your questions and benefit from the lessons-learned by other public works professionals who have been through the process of choosing funding options for a stormwater management program. Figure out if establishing a stormwater utility would work for your agency.
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