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West Michigan Water Career Program: A Novel Approach to Recruitment

In 2022, Grand Rapids Community College, partnering with Bay College and the City of Grand Rapids, received a $500K grant awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, specifically focusing on…

5G and Fiber—50 Billion Reasons You NEED to Understand Telecom!

To meet the skyrocketing demand for telecommunications, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, $55 billion in federal money and billions more in private sector dollars are building a “fifth utility” nationwide.…

Capital Planning and Budgeting: Using Modeling to Create Best Practices

Organizations face challenges in planning/managing capital improvement plans and associated financial requirements while balancing resources, customer expectations, regulatory changes, and population growth. Along with these challenges, there are difficult questions…

Drinking from the Fire Hose No More: Onboarding and Training Made Easy

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…

Going from Manual Workflows to Modern Data Practices with Live Reports

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…

Intercepting Chaos: Effective Management Can Make Your Project Flow

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…

Medical District Drive—How Partnering Delivers a Better Project

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…

Roadmap to Readiness: Prepare Your Organization BEFORE the Disruption

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,…

The R.E.M. Murmur Trestle: Strategies that Unlocked a 20-Year Stalemate

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…

What Gives You the Right?

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…