The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
The votes are in: Most Innovative Products of the year!
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Environmental concerns make natural gas a natural investment for the right operation. Here are a few natural-gas-powered vehicles on the market.
Environmental concerns make natural gas a natural investment for the right operation. Here are a few natural-gas-powered vehicles on the market.
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Keep ice, frost and snow at bay with the latest ice and snow products.
Keep ice, frost and snow at bay with the latest ice and snow products.
Keep ice, frost and snow at bay with the latest ice and snow products.
Keep ice, frost and snow at bay with the latest ice and snow products.
Keep ice, frost and snow at bay with the latest ice and snow products.
Keep ice, frost and snow at bay with the latest ice and snow products.
Keep ice, frost and snow at bay with the latest ice and snow products.
Our list of Trendsetters includes public works movers and shakers—from public officials to everyday heroes to bad guys. Here you can view current and past Trendsetter articles, access Web exclusive materials and more.
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The tax credits the IRS offers to offset the higher-priced environmentally friendly vehicles isn't available to tax-exempt organizations like city government.
The Missouri DOT continues down the innovation highway by testing earth-friendly pavement markings.
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The traffic engineering division had to keep track of 65,000 street signs, and the outdated paper-based tracking system in place violated the municipal code that required the department to maintain accurate, up-to-date records of its traffic-control devices. They needed a cost-effective way to...
A New Jersey maintenance team saves taxpayers $80,000 a year by bringing inspection in-house
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While the goal of Sarasota County's flood control project was simple—reroute stormwater around homes and into creeks—it produced an unexpected, but welcome, byproduct: luring birds back to the wildlife-barren land.
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Sarasota County had a problem: Farmers modified the land decades ago to retain water and nourish crops. Because it sloped to the south, excess water flowed in that direction. As developers paved the land to build new homes, the ground's ability to absorb water greatly decreased.
Over the past decade, three Chicago suburb consolidated multiple-building public works compounds into modern buildings that increase productivity.
Check out the new hybrid and non-hybrid models of trucks, pickups, and work vehicles.
With improvements in hybrid technology and higher-than-average gas prices, the greatest potential for fuel savings may be in Class 3 through 5 vehicles. As is any vehicle using a power take-off (PTO), they're well suited for hybrid technology.
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Infrastructure enhancements like the widening of County Road 540A don't get off the ground without the Fleet Management Division, which repairs, maintains, and fuels nearly 2200 vehicles and pieces of heavy equipment for all county divisions, eight municipalities, several state agencies, and even...
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There are many reasons Polk County, Fla., residents and elected officials should be proud. For one, the National Civil League dubbed it an All-American County for its grassroots community programs. And for another, people like working there. That's why it earned a Department of the Year Honorable...
Once someone joins the Chesapeake Public Works Department, they never seem to want to leave. Of the 500 employees on staff, nearly 100 have been there 20 years or more. If you want to know why, ask Jerry Ivory.
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The goal of Fort Wayne's Public Works and Utilities Department is to replace six of the city's 1000 miles of water mains each year.
Fort Wayne (Ind.) Public Works and Utilities Department's quantifiable approach to problem-solving enables public works to deliver better service to one-third more customers with the same number of employees. That's why the department took top honors in our third annual Department of the Year...
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is poised to exempt transportation departments from having to perform environmental assessments (EA) or release environmental impact statements (EIS) on intelligent transportation infrastructure (ITI) projects.
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You may have heard some creative marriage proposals, but here's one you'll really dig.
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The blight costs Big Apple businesses and government millions of dollars annually, but after a recent collar in Brooklyn, citizens and officials are wondering if the rules are too tough.
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Catch up on news important to the infrastructure industry from across the nation.
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Graham Richard is on our cover because he
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Three years ago, Cambridge, Mass., made a smart move: it started swapping the incandescent bulbs on its 136 traffic lights with LEDs, slashing its electricity bill. But there was a problem that traffic engineer Jeff Parenti and his team couldn't have foreseen. . .
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New, and noteworthy products for road signals, signs, and traffic management.
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This glossary sheds light on how unique Albuquerque's new GPS system—the first government-owned system with tri-constellation capability—is.
Back when actor John Ratzenberger was a youngster, playtime was a hands-on experience. Barring a blizzard or other weather catastrophe, he and his friends would be outside most days, playing ball or riding their bikes. Other days, he would tinker.
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New, and noteworthy products that were exhibited at the 2007 American Public Works Association Convention.
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The city of Lincoln, Neb., is fast outgrowing its 880 miles of sanitary sewers. To remedy this situation, the Lincoln Wastewater System (LWWS) is upgrading its wastewater collection system. That's a lot of pipe.
A dual-purpose gravity sewer can take the pressure in a growing city.
Mesa del Sol is the first large-scale application of Albuquerque's Real Time Global Navigation Satellite System—GNSS—Network (ARTGN), the world's first government-owned, triple-constellation-capable, real-time GPS network.
When the city of Milwaukee began using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to manage its 50 buildings, operations and maintenance director Joe Jacobsen didn't know how hard it would be to convince other managers of the true measure of his department's performance.
Many cities use geographic information systems (GIS) combined with asset management software to manage infrastructure, but buildings often get short shrift. But now forward-thinking facility managers, are also using technology to bring their role out of the basement and into the modern world.
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Our annual list of people, places, and events that made their mark on infrastructure. From do-gooders to good-for-nothings here are the 50 Trendsetters that shaped, shocked, or otherwise rocked our world over the past year.
It was only 40 years old when it collapsed Aug. 1, but the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minnesota had been deemed “structurally deficient” since 1997. Experts speculate the steel arch truss bridge collapsed because of weather extremes, vulnerable design, and/or metal fatigue. Following the...
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The EPA has altered the compost and fertilizer listings in the landscaping category. The measure stands to encourage local public works departments to get past previous concerns about the environmental friendliness of the practice, thereby increasing local landscaping options and, in some instances...
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Eurpoean towns jettison traffic lights, signs; Florida Stadium leaves fans high and dry.
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Battle Creek is the latest municipality to implement eco-friendly practices in its infrastructure management operations
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This year, the American Concrete Pipe Association (ACPA) is celebrating its 100th anniversary by looking back on the role concrete pipe has played in the country's history.
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Employees of the California DOT (Caltrans) have been getting rid of tire-flattened raccoons, deer, and other critters by dumping the carcasses onto a Saratoga hillside.
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Catch up on important news, views and events from across the country.
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In 2005, the 60 largest U.S. cities spent a record $4.3 billion in maintaining and growing their parks systems. However, green-space advocates maintain more funding is needed to improve urban quality of life.
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While waiting for the EPA's regulatory and enforcement arms to get in sync (which will be a long wait), you can focus on managing public expectations regarding water use.
An Oregon city relies on sequencing batch reactor technology to clean up wastewater discharging into the economically vital Columbia River.
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Eric Steel's documentary
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Although companies are rapidly developing products incorporating nanotechnology, we don't fully understand the nature of these products.
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which have been detected at trace concentrations in waters around the world, interfere with hormonal processes and alter the way organisms reproduce and develop.
Avon Lake Municipal Utilities in Ohio found a way to save $1 million on one portion of its $20 million sewer-separation project, which the EPA approved in 2004 and is expected to be fully completed in 2020.
We are in an age where stewards of the nation's water are faced with a triple-fold job: to provide adequate and safe drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater services for a growing population; to reverse the detrimental effects of water pollution, and establish new methods to limit future...
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An Excel-based financial-forecasting model enables one county to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant without rate shock.
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Keep ice, frost and snow at bay with the latest ice and snow products.
An automated fuel dispensing system enables Madison, Wis., to better maintain virtually all of its 1100 vehicles.
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Overturning an earlier ban, a U.S. District Court has granted the city of Los Angeles and other agencies, businesses, and farmers the right to use biosolids for crop fertilization, landscaping, and other applications.
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When residents are doing something they shouldn't—namely, illicit substances like crystal methamphetamine and cocaine—your influent shows it.
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Stay up to date with the latest news from the infrastructure industry.
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To simultaneously solve the problem of illicit dumping and educate teenagers about the importance of proper sewer stewardship, Pontiac wastewater treatment plant superintendent Dave Sullivan joined forces with Paul Ritter, ecology instructor at Pontiac Township High School, to create a youth...
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Until 13 people were killed in the Minneapolis bridge collapse, the average citizen didn't think twice about roads or bridges except to complain about the occasional pothole or decry proposed fuel tax increases.
Over the past decade, three Chicago suburbs—Algonquin, Elmhurst, and Arlington Heights—consolidated their multiple-building, patched-together compounds into sleek, modern buildings that increase productivity.
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For half a century, the Red Hill Valley Parkway in Hamilton, Ontario, has had its share of controversy. In 1956, infrastructure managers conceived the expressway project, and the transportation corridor became part of the city
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The American Public Works Association's (APWA) first day-long focus on stormwater drew twice as many people as expected on the final day of its annual convention.
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On Thursday, Sept., 13, actor and TV host John Ratzenberger stopped by the factory of Elgin Sweeper Co. in Elgin, Ill., to tape a segment for John Ratzenberger's Made in America.