You can ask at a conference we’re convening this fall in Cleveland, a city whose public works professionals have done their fair share of innovation to maintain water quality and safe roads. Public Works focuses on the public agency’s role in planning and delivering projects, but success is a team effort. As this wastewater facility design and Miami Beach’s struggles with sea level rise show, contractors and consultants often bring products and processes to the table that make you look good by getting more bang out of each taxpayer buck during and after construction.
The price of a technology drops 50% every 18 months, putting tools like big data within reach for many public works departments. With federal support shrinking, this is important for state and local governments that are picking up the slack. Ninety percent of data in existence today was created over the last two years. Much of it belongs to your agency, which will generate much more in the decades to come as technology adoption accelerates. To take full advantage of it, you and your partners must know what’s available and potential impact on long-term maintenance and operations. Our Infrastructure Imperative conference looks at how teams are using emerging technologies on three projects:
- the nation’s largest voter-approved transit-oriented development
- one of the nation’s few extradosed prestressed-concrete bridges, which involved two state transportation departments, and
- a third we’re still debating.
I’ll share more details as they become available. In the meantime, to qualify for the $449 early-bird government discount, you must register by midnight (Eastern) Friday. If getting professional development hours (PDHs) doesn't justify joining us, download the justification letter from this webpage. If you have any questions, e-mail me at [email protected]. Hope to see you there!
