APWA.net Event Detail

Date(s):

March 8, 2007

Location:

Audio/Web Broadcast

Cost:

Members: $150.00
Non Members: $200.00

Description:

Are you faced with improving the infrastructure with less money than the bottom line suggests?

Get tips for managing your assets from experts who have been through the experience. Find out how to determine the where, when and how much to invest into your infrastructure.

Learn about:

- Principles of asset management - from basic to advanced practice
- Moving from building and operating assets to managing assets
- Building your asset management capability - what works, what to avoid
- Strategies to minimize life cycle costs
- Communicating level of service options and their consequences to the community

This program has been approved for .2 CEUs or 2 PDHs. The form to request these credits is included in the handouts for this program.

Speaker:

Patricia Bugas-Schramm

Patricia is Portland Transportation�s Asset Management Coordinator. She is also the Assistant to the Director of the Portland Transportation Maintenance Bureau. She has been a member of APWA for 20 years and is the 2006 recipient of the APWA Jennings Randolph International fellowship on asset management.

Patricia has lead PDOT-wide strategic initiatives including initiating the Status and Condition Report in 1986, now in its 20th year of production, which summarizes the inventory, condition, replacement value and unmet need for transportation�s 32 asset classes. Patricia managed development of PDOT�s Infrastructure Management System Master Plan that culminated in the merger of financial, mapping, work order and inventory systems in 2000. Since 2000, she has initiated 8 asset management teams for pavement, structures, signals, lights, signs, markings, sidewalk system and parking assets. Patricia represents transportation on the City Asset Managers Group and is on the executive committee of the Pacific Northwest Asset Managers Users Group (AMUG).

Speaker:

Phil Dixon, P.Eng.

Infrastructure Manager
Planning & Engineering
City of St. Albert, Alberta
Canada

Phil has worked in the Asset Management industry for the last decade, including 5 years in southern Ontario and the last 6 years based in Western Canada out of the Edmonton, Alberta area. In his previous consulting role, he developed pavement/asset management strategies for clients throughout North America including Las Vegas,NV; Bowling Green, KY; Fargo, ND as well as composing State of the Infrastructure reports for the Province of Alberta and the City of St. Albert, AB. Phil has been involved with Infraguide (National Guide to Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure) as the Regional Contact for Alberta.

Phil joined the City of St. Albert in May 2006 as their Infrastructure Manager. His role includes developing the ten year capital plan for the City's twelve asset categories worth $1.5 billion.

Speaker:

Duncan Rose

VP/Technical Director - Asset Management
GHD
Monticello, FL

Duncan serves as Vice President, Service Group Manager, Asset Management and Management Consulting, for GHD LLC, the USA corporation of an Australian-based international engineering and management consulting company that has pioneered the practical application of advanced asset management to virtually all forms of public and private infrastructure assets.

He is a former City/County manager with senior management experience with the cities of Columbus, Ohio and Dallas, Texas; he served as a Deputy County Manager in Gainesville, Florida and as County Manager for Seminole County in the Orlando area. He has 20 years� experience as a management consultant, serving as Vice President of a large regional engineering firm, as CEO/Managing Director of a management-consulting firm and as the Technical Director for a multi-national engineering corporation�s Asset Management Center before joining GHD.

Speaker:

MODERATOR: Dave Bergner

Public Works Superintendent, City of Overland Park, KS

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