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Please check back often as we continue to add items. Tuesday, June 08, 20105:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 09, 20107:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | | Climate Change Adaptation Strategies & Public Works Infrastructure | Which climate adaptation strategies are most critical? Hear specific ways to prioritize and adapt your infrastructure, and explore the concept of developing a Climate Adaptation Plan for your municipality.
Adaptation strategies acknowledge that even if society is successful at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the decades ahead, some climate change will still occur and public infrastructure will be negatively impacted. As utility managers and engineers, be prepared for these changes in climate as part of your planning strategy and in the design of new infrastructure. |
| | How to Turn Obstacles, Barriers and Challenges into Opportunities for Sustainability | Learn from others who have been there! This panel discussion centers on how two communities are successfully integrating sustainability initiatives in their municipalities - despite looming economic and philosophical challenges.
Hear about real-life experiences, including partnering with the private sector and community residents to promote environmental initiatives, and the return on investment that can be achieved as a result. |
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | | Micro-workshop Session Part 1: Meaning | Understanding Modern Frameworks and Tools to Conceptualize Sustainability
This is the first session of a four-part micro-workshop series focusing on how you can prepare a leadership action sketch for advancing sustainability in your organization or team. Join Michael Mucha, Chair of APWA's Center for Sustainability and Public Works Director of the City of Olympia, Washington, as he guides this insightful and practical series centering on real-world applications for public works. Participate in the whole four-part series - or utilize only the sessions you need - it's up to you! Whether you are just beginning sustainability planning, or trying to maintain your momentum, this micro-workshop series has the tools you need right now to implement sustainability initiatives in your organization and community.
Which sustainability framework is right for your agency or community? Begin with Part 1 of this four-part micro-workshop series and take your first steps toward identifying a foundation for your plan. Then, get exposed to the most useful tools and resources available today to get you started toward your agency's sustainable future. |
| | Using Low Impact Development to Combat Impacts of Urbanization | Do you want a better solution to conventional stormwater management practices in your city? Discover how you can apply Low Impact Development (LID) techniques to decrease nonpoint source (NPS) pollution from runoff, even in established urban areas with aging infrastructure and space constraints.
The potential benefits to water quality and the capability to provide real solutions to existing problems make LID retrofitting an advantageous alternative for many urban communities. This session focuses on a wide variety of LID techniques designed to capture, filter, detain, infiltrate, and release stormwater in developed areas. |
2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | | Floodplain Sustainability: The Confluence of Flood Risk, Property Rights, Land Use and Environmental Stewardship | Discover how enhanced floodplain management provides the foundation for a sustainable community. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) sets minimum standards for traditional floodplain management. However, many benefits for communities, citizens and developers can be attributed to floodplain preservation and "no adverse impact" (NAI) approaches.
Find out how you can treat floodplains as an asset rather than a liability and hear case studies that illustrate the value of floodplain preservation. |
| | Micro-workshop Session Part 2: Purpose | Setting a Sustainability Strategy: Where to Start and How to Translate Intent into Meaningful Action
So you want to apply sustainability principles to your agency and your community - but you're not sure how to get started? Sit in on Part 2 of this four-part micro-workshop and learn how you can turn your ideas into concrete actions now. |
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | | 4A Collaborative: Kansas City Design Professionals for Regional Sustainability | Do you think regional cooperation toward sustainability is a fantasy? You may change your mind when you hear how collaboration among organizations aims to make Kansas City a more sustainable city.
In March 2008, the Kansas City chapters of American Institute of Architects (AIA), American Planning Association (APA), American Public Works Association (APWA), and American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) began meeting for the first time on regional design issues. Their goals? To make Kansas City a sustainable metro area, and to manage water as a resource and not as a liability. These four professional organizations, in cooperation with the regional planning agency Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), formed an interdisciplinary partnership of allied planning and design professions committed to identifying and developing resources, principles and strategies that promote the triple bottom line throughout the Kansas City region. Discover how you can promote collaboration in your own community! |
| | Complete Streets - A Growing Roadway Design Priority | You can accommodate all roadway users while balancing convenience and safety! Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities can safely move along and across a Complete Street.
Hear about the key components of Complete Streets, and how you can tailor a Complete Street design to fit the needs of your community. |
Thursday, June 10, 20107:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | | Downsizing Your Facility's Energy Use | LEED-EB certification is not just for new construction! Discover how a historic public building achieved LEED-EB Silver certification and an energy savings of 15-20%.
Explore the history of the Milwaukee City Hall complex, a National Register of Historic Places building which has undergone a decades-long interior and exterior retrofit. Learn about this comprehensive energy reduction effort, which addressed all aspects of mechanical equipment and controls, lighting, and building envelope components. |
| | Green Infrastructure Master Implementation Plan for Indianapolis, Indiana | Is dealing with direct discharges and end-of-pipe treatment at plants a critical issue for your city? Learn how city and public works professionals can utilize Green Infrastructure (GI) as a positive solution that can result in Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) abatement, cost savings at wastewater treatment plants, improved water quality, decreased erosion, decreased runoff, and improved aesthetics.
Find out the results of an in-depth technical and financial analysis of the potential outcomes of implementing Green Infrastructure Best Management Practices (GI BMPs) on a large scale in Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio. |
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | | Municipal Biomass-to-Energy Options | Reduce your municipal carbon footprint! Developing energy from waste biomass, such as wood wastes, yard wastes, and biosolids, offers municipalities a way to harvest heat and electricity from renewable materials, and to reduce the municipal carbon footprint.
This session gives an objective overview of the advantages and disadvantages of several biomass-to-energy alternatives, including combustion, anaerobic digestion, dry fermentation, pyrolysis and gasification. Options to use this energy will be reviewed, including boilers, internal combustion engines, steam turbines, and microturbines. |
| | Sustainability Becomes Reality: We Built a Pervious Concrete Public Street! | Come and hear how this real-world public project has made history. The City of Shoreview, Minnesota, recently completed the largest pervious concrete public street project in North America.
The knowledge gained by this project will help in the design and installation of future pervious concrete projects and provide invaluable information on the long-term performance of pervious concrete in a public road environment. Learn how you too can advocate for non-traditional approaches to public infrastructure design in your own community.
- Advocate for nontraditonal approaches to public infrastructure design, construction and maintenance
- Establish partnerships with diverse stakeholders in the context of an innovative public infrastructure project
- Evaluate the possibility of using pervious concrete in conjunction with a public infrastructure project |
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | | Micro-workshop Session Part 3: Success Indicators | Developing Key Result Measures and Accountability for Sustainability
You have the desire and the tools to make sustainability happen ... but how do you prove you are making progress toward your goal? Part 3 of this four-part micro-workshop series helps you learn how to track your progress. |
2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | | Micro-workshop Session Part 4: People | Exercising Leadership to Build a Sustainable Work Culture
Not sure how to build organizational support for sustainability? Get the answers you need in the final session of this four-part micro-workshop series. Explore the critical role of strong leadership in changing a traditional work culture into a sustainable one. |
| | Using Recycled Materials in Roadways and Other Infrastructure Projects: Greening the Nation's Infrastructure & Saving You Money | You don't have to throw it all away! Many industrial byproducts have chemical and physical properties that make them valuable resources when recycled or beneficially reused, but they are often disposed of as waste.
Discover how you can use recycled industrial materials to green your upcoming infrastructure projects. In addition to the environmental benefits, using recycled materials makes good economic and engineering sense. Learn about specific, viable infrastructure applications based on a wide variety of case studies presented by technical experts and practitioners. |
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