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The three pillars for sustainable management of infrastructure include: stewardship, asset management, and financial planning. In Australia, local governments account for their infrastructure in their financial statements. It is about balancing priorities, risks, levels of service and available funding to move beyond technical management assets to incorporate stewardship and long-term financial planning.
Read MoreLeduc County’s Nisku Spine Road project is its first attempt at implementing a value-based project delivery system developed by researchers at Arizona State University. Using the process, proposal evaluation time was reduced by 75%. The main advantage of the process was its ability to simplify contractor selection through the alignment of project expertise.
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Are you considering using liquids or growing your use of liquids in your snow and ice operation? Join us to build your understanding of liquid use and see firsthand how others are making inroads by adding and/or expanding treatment types and applications with liquid materials.
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The Engineering and Technology Committee developed this position statement on Professional Liability Insurance
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While the phrases “social media”, “emergency management”, and “public works” are not always seen as relating to each other, in reality they should. This presentation will provide participants some fundamentals about social media including information on the different types of social media, aspects that should be taken into consideration when selecting a media, and pointers for starting out.
Read MoreThe Village of Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha County partnered to on a park and ride project that included self-performed municipal construction work, an environmentally responsible design, several innovative construction techniques to reduce the impact of construction, meet critical timelines, and tight budget constraints.
Read MoreWhen completed, the OC Loop will be a 66-mile bikeway intended to encircle much of west Orange County. The construction has galvanized local agencies to pursue projects along the route including flood control right-of-way and utility corridors, grade separated crossings, connections to other bikeways.
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Advances in survey technology yield a broad range of new and beneficial opportunities for public works. Use of static LiDAR, or laser scanning technology for data collection yields many benefits for certain public works engineering and management applications.
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