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The AEC industry is rapidly changing and utilizing more collaborative project delivery methods such as IPD, ILPD, Design-Build, and Design Assist. This calls for a different set of skills. Technical ability is now the price of entry. Companies and their employees must also have great communication skills-including...
Most of our interactions with customers, patrons, and citizens go smoothly; however, those that don't go well can put a negative spin on everyone's day. This workshop teaches participants how to prepare for, recognize, and expertly manage difficult customer situations when they arise. Participants will...
This presentation helps solve the mystery of analyzing roadway deficiencies and selecting a treatment method that works. It will begin with a discussion of the failure mechanisms of pavement that result in pavement thermal and fatigue crack and fatigue along with other load related pavement failures...
Highway assets, including traffic signs, traffic signals, light poles, and guardrails, are important components of transportation networks. They guide, warn, and protect drivers and regulate traffic. To manage and maintain the regular operation of the highway system, state departments of transportation...
Project problems-low or no profitability, client alienation, litigation - flow much more from miscommunication than from technical deficiencies. Sometimes our desire to do excellent technical work causes us to give too little attention to inter-personal issues. To minimize such problems, a project manager...
Think about the business, government, academic, and volunteer organizations that you know well. You could place each in one of these three categories: Surviving, or barely so; thriving or close to it; and exceling. While the "survivors" do just enough to get by, the "thrivers," which constitute the vast...
This presentation will discuss ancillary structure types and past failures, introduction to the wind loads and problems from resulting vibrations/fatigue. Discussion on galvanized steel, aluminum, and weathering steel commonly used and potential problems with these. We will cover inspection procedures...