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One Track Minds: How to Successfully Partner with a Railroad on Your Next Public Works Project

Public works departments are responsible for overseeing the delivery of infrastructure improvement projects and providing timely and cost-effective maintenance. For construction or maintenance that requires working with a railroad, it…

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Recession and Labor Shortage: Using Fleet Automation To Attract and Retain Talent While Building Resilience

Since 2020 multiple calamitous disruptions have plagued the waste and recycling industry, from COVID-19 and an ongoing driver shortage to skyrocketing fuel prices and looming recession. Amid unprecedented changes, forward-thinking…

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Succession Planning Builds A Stronger Foundation For Your Team’s Future

What is one threat that can impact the health of any organization—whether they are an agency, construction firm, or consultant? Staff turnover and its associated institutional knowledge loss. Having a…

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Training and Technical Assistance Designed for Your State

The National LTAP-TTAP Program offers training and technical assistance in each state and Puerto Rico. A key to our success is the ability of each center to develop training programs…

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Asset Management for Smaller Muncipalities

When it comes to government, specifically local government, budgets are expected to remain low, and the level of service is expected to be high. One of the most effective ways…

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Cool Neighborhoods

Los Angeles is particularly vulnerable to heat-related health issues; they are one of the only US metro areas with heat-related emergency room visits and deaths in the winter. Due to…

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Experience and Lessons Learned Leveraging the Envision Sustainability Framework for the Planning, Design, and Construction of a Replacement Pump Station and Force Main in Coral Gables, Florida

The City of Coral Gables has pioneered myriad sustainability practices throughout its municipal government and individual departments, including the City’s Department of Public Works (DPW). DPW vetted multiple sustainability strategies…

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If This Stream Could Talk

This session will explore the nexus of resilient infrastructure and public open space. The Tower Grove Park East Stream Restoration brings sustainable stormwater management, history, ecology, education, and play to…

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Lessons Learned with Construction Manager General Contractor (CMGC) Procurement of Transportation Projects

SANDAG and Caltrans recently completed the $78m San Elijo Lagoon Double Track rail project on the LOSSAN corridor in San Diego County using the CMGC delivery method as part of…

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One Water is the “Wave” of the Future, and Stormwater Reuse Can Be a Community’s Entry-Point

The One Water approach is expanding rapidly. Examples of successes are growing and are varied and numerous. This session will provide inspiring success stories and examples coming from different geographies,…

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