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On any given day, a Public Works employee could be landscaping, collecting waste, patching a pothole or driving a snow plow. Training new employees takes hundreds of hours in the…
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The City of Eagan, Minnesota, uses many types of software to help manage its physical and data assets. As the technological environment has grown and evolved, some software products have…
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The Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) was charged with decommissioning its 24 MGD Chesapeake-Elizabeth Treatment Plant (CETP) due to regulatory requirements set by the EPA. To meet these requirements without…
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The Medical District Drive project improves multimodal access to Dallas’s Medical District by reconstructing the road between Southwestern Medical Avenue and Interstate Highway 35E. The Complete Street expansion entails six…
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The local government workplace, and certainly public works agencies, are facing increasingly more and unique disruptors in these ever changing times. These disruptors can take the form of natural disasters,…
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In 1983, Georgia-based R.E.M. released their debut album featuring an image of an abandoned railroad trestle on the album’s back cover. Fifteen years later, the railroad began an effort to…
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Land acquisition for 65 miles of Transmission Main from Chicago to the Southwest Suburbs—The Alternative Water Source Program (AWSP) is being undertaken by the Grand Prairie Water Commission (GPWC) in…
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Transcendental leadership is the epitome of leadership. It places the leader’s focus on the service to those around them and those external to the organization for which they work. The…
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When the City of Lawrence, Kansas, faced a $65M upgrade to their wastewater treatment plant, the city knew that collaborative delivery would be a critical tool for success. Initiating a…
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For many larger agencies, having fleet management software (FMS) is a standard amenity. Having an FMS makes vehicle replacement and budget planning a much easier task. But . . .…
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