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You have spent months, even years, planning, designing and raising money to build your public works project. How do you keep the public and key stakeholders informed? How can you prepare them for the inevitable traffic congestion and unanticipated delays? How do you involve emergency responders so that they can plan around your project should a crisis occur? How do you share the project successes with the elected officials, yet shield them from any bumps in the road? In this session, you will learn from communications professionals how a successful public outreach process can turn concerned residents and businesses into supportive advocates during construction.Learning Objectives:Create a multi-faceted public information plan that starts before construction and lasts until completion.Build an information system that reaches different stakeholders, in different manners.Provide an interagency forum for disseminating information, planning for emergencies and getting critical feedback.
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In 2016, the City of Surrey, British Columbia, opened a new operations center consisting of three fully enclosed buildings: a 114,000 square foot operations facility, a 54,000 square foot fleet and garage building, and a 14,000 square foot warehouse. The operations facility is LEED Silver Certified and is 40% more energy efficient than a typical operations building. The fleet building is designed to be completely operational after post-disaster conditions and to serve as an emergency operations centre. In 2017, Surrey will be the home of the first fully-integrated organics waste management system in North America. The system includes the existing collection of residential organics waste by a fleet comprised of 100% compressed natural gas vehicles (CNG). Everything is up-to-date in Surrey!Learning Objectives: Promote industry-leading projects in public works that will inspire others to follow suit.Demonstrate the potential public works has to make our communities efficient and sustainable.Generate ideas and innovations and promote resource-sharing among public works professionals and agencies.
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One of air pollution's primary causes is transportation. According to the USEPA, over 90% of the fuel used in transportation is petroleum-based. When the combustion of oil occurs, 50% of the total emissions are NOx. Discover how your agency can retrofit existing asphalt and concrete pavements-enabling them to function as a catalyst for changing NOx into harmless levels of nitrates. By impregnating existing pavements with a specially formulated titanium dioxide membrane activated by the sun, the pavements become NOx mitigating surfaces. Now public works can become part of the solution to NOx off emissions.Learning Objectives: Identify the cause of and the associated costs for much of the existing air pollution.Negotiate with private partners to achieve win-win P3 agreements.Anticipate and mitigate risks when entering into a P3 for infrastructure development.
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A plant
that literally cracks concrete and asphalt will soon be cracking open the
wallets of American municipalities, landowners, and taxpayers. Japanese
knotweed is on the war path to dominate the landscape and expensive human
made structures cannot withstand its force! Billions of dollars of damage to
roads, bridges, building foundations, and sewer systems are coming down the
pipes (literally!) and can only be avoided with basic prevention measures.
The United Kingdom has been overrun and is currently trying to rally its
forces to combat this invasion, but the costs are totaling up to billions of
dollars their governments don't have. In North America, we have the
opportunity to get in front of this impending menace and, through prevention
of spread, keep our damage costs at a minimum. This plant is going to change
how municipalities do EVERYTHING, and you'll be one of the first in the
country to hear what's going to be happening on your turf in the coming
""Knotweed Apocalypse"". Discover what other countries have done to
protect themselves, and how you can ""Fight the ""Bamboo""""
where you live, too.
Learning Objectives:
Identify
the global threat posed by Japanese knotweed.
Implement prevention methods that will save billions of dollars.Coordinate with local organizations to ""Spread the Word, Not the Plant.""
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Fossils, politics, endangered species, and a landfill-the $127 million La Pata Avenue Gap Closure project in Southern Orange County, California, encountered more challenges than they could have imagined during the initial planning phases. Establishing a connection between two major cities over rugged, undeveloped backcountry terrain required significant collaboration between many political and influential interest groups; the relocation of a landfill to a new site; 15 million cubic yards of earthwork; 117,383 tons of asphalt; extensive environmental mitigation; and accommodation of archaeological finds.Learning Objectives:Successfully coordinate a massive roadway connection project.Overcome funding challenges with creative solutions.Engage communities, agencies, and stakeholders to gain support for a controversial project.
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Every year, around 20% of all crashes, injuries and fatalities on the roadway are weather related and over 30 billion vehicle hours are lost due to weather-related congestion at a…
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Self-Assessment is an excellent way to examine and evaluate your agency's current management policies and procedures. In this session, you will gain an understanding of why self-assessment can improve effectiveness,…
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Winter maintenance managers have to make many decisions about the weather. This session makes it simple, focusing only on what matters, and provides you with a path toward using these…
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The City of Minneapolis recently launched initiatives seeking to understand causal factors of accidents in the Public Works Fleet while ensuring employees fair treatment during the investigative process.Public Works vehicle…
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While water and wastewater systems typically have dedicated funding resources to address system issues, identifying and choosing the most cost-effective approach to stormwater management can be a struggle. Risk-based asset management is quickly becoming a preferred business process for municipal public works programs. This session will review asset management evaluations completed for several municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s) and other agencies, including case studies for risk-based projects performed for Washington, D.C.; Chesterfield County, Virginia; and the Georgia Department of Transportation. Use of GIS paired with a risk-based approach to stormwater system asset management can help communities and agencies more efficiently inventory their assets, and determine the current physical state and performance capabilities of each asset.Learning Objectives:Describe the key elements for conducting a risk-based stormwater asset management assessmentEvaluate new technologies to streamline field data collectionDiscover technology that can be used to develop a cost-effective stormwater capital improvement program (CIP)
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