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Sponsored by APWA’s Small Cities Rural Communities Committee Public works departments in small cities and rural communities often face challenges in advocating for federal, state, and community support for issues and funding related to critical services and infrastructure. Attend this session and get practical ideas and tools to engage elected officials and bring positive results for your agency.
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The Village of Streamwood, Illinois, replaced full depth asphalt and granular base with roller-compacted concrete (RCC). The RCC provides a stronger base, and the village estimates at least an initial 15 per cent savings in design, and a longer service life with less maintenance.
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Transportation departments continue to face serious challenges in meeting customer expectations for acceptable roadway surfacing and service. Today’s increased traffic loads exceed the original roadway design, especially those with asphalt surfaces. This session will present life-cycle cost data, case studies and lessons learned, and alternatives to paving.
Read MoreSponsored by APWA’s Engineering & Technology Committee Agencies and elected officials have been attracted by the prospect of turning fixed capital assets into income. Options range from placing advertising on transit shelters to offering long-term leases on major highways. Proponents see ways to boost return on public investments; skeptics see a diversion of public funds and depletion of a legacy.
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Every community relies on Public Works; however, most citizens do not understand how Public Works affect them personally. By leveraging public outreach and education strategies and developing multi-agency collaborations, you can help community members become more aware of your agency, the indelible connection between Public Works and local history; and how their investments in Public Works, community infrastructure, and related engineering & design projects continue to improve daily life.
Read MoreSponsored by APWA's Solid Waste Management Committee Current solid waste management systems are not equipped to accommodate predicted trends of increasing population and consumption. Explore how a cap and trade system would cap levels for overall waste production and reward the most efficient states through trading credits.
Read MoreExamine the City of Baltimore’s Integrated Planning Framework (IPF), which is based on a triple bottom line approach where all projects are evaluated against economic, environmental, and social criteria.
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Sponsored by APWA’s Government Affairs Committee Summer 2013 will mark the one-year anniversary of MAP-21. Part One of this session will review the initial year implementation of the bill’s project delivery streamlining provisions. Part Two will look forward, as MAP-21 is only a two-year bill. Panelists will discuss the framework for the successor legislation to MAP-21.
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Learn how Cupertino, California, incorporated innovative and practical applications of GIS, QR code and smartphone technologies to identify and protect street trees while also educating and engaging the community. Inventorying Cupertino’s nearly 14,000 trees was both a beginning and catalyst to improvement of their urban forest.
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Learn about the Prince William Environmental Mitigation Bank. Through the sale of stream credits on the open market, the county can restore miles of local, degraded and impacted stream corridors at no expense to the Prince William County taxpayer
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