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Date(s): November 19, 2003
Location: Audio/Web Broadcast
Cost: Members: $150.00
Non Members: $150.00
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Description: Expanding and reconfiguring your existing yard or designing and building a new yard is serious business with long term implications. So, whether you are currently undertaking a project or considering future plans to do so, get the information you need to make the right choices at the right times.

The HUB for daily operations – The public works yard.

A yard provides you with safe and secure equipment and vehicles storage, accommodates high volumes of in-and-out traffic, houses operations from office space to your maintenance shop, and is often the dispatch and administration node within the city’s or county’s jurisdiction.

With all of these functions at stake, you need to “get it right” when you plan and construct your agency’s facilities.

In 2 hours you will learn:
Design components you need to consider – space, layout, functions, buildings, parking, traffic flows, fueling stations, and more
  • Steps and timeline to building a yard
  • How to allow for future needs and expansion
  • Tips for selecting the right contractors for the project
  • How to determine whether or not to centralize your operations


    • Speakers:

    Mark Ellis, Senior Project Manager with Maintenance Design Group, Houston, TX office will show you all the design and layout components that need to be considered and how to put a good master plan together.

    David Byers, Director of Public Works Operations for the City of Chula Vista, CA will share his story in building an effective and efficient yard facility. The city’s new $34.5 million public works center occupying 25 acres just opened for business this summer after years of planning & design.
    Speaker: David Byers

    Director of Public Works Operations for the City of Chula Vista, Dave Byers is responsible for the day to day operations of the Public Works Operations Department. He manages 169 employees and is responsible for a budget of approximately a $22 million. Dave Byers has 27 years experience in the public sector.



    Prior to his emplacement with the City, Dave served in the Navy. He graduated from the USNA in June, 1967 and served until he resigned his commission in 1974. After his tour in the Navy, Dave went to San Diego State College and received his MPA in June of 1976. Dave was hired as an Administrative Aide, was promoted to the City's Budget Manager in 1985, and was promoted to his current position in 1990.
    Speaker: Mark Ellis

    Mark Ellis, senior project manager in Maintenance Design Group's Houston office, has 15 years of experience as a project manager, planner, and functional design specialist providing facility design services to clients throughout Texas and nationwide. Mr. Ellis has significant experience in preparing facility master plans, facility conceptual designs, site selection studies, facility design criteria, equipment selection, specification and layout, and construction documents. He has participated in facility design on more than 120 projects, including planning and design of more than 50 transit maintenance facilities with fleets ranging from 50 to 250 standard and articulated buses, more than 40 municipal facilities for fleets of 50 to 2,800 vehicles, and several school district vehicle and building maintenance facilities throughout the United States. Mr. Ellis is MDG leader in programming, planning design, and equipment planning for municipal facilities. Some of Mr. Ellis’ recent municipal and public works facility projects include facility designs for the City of Fremont, California, Town of Windsor, California, City of Burlingame California, and the City of Chula Vista, California. Mark has also recently completed or is currently working on Public Works Yard master planning projects for the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, the City of San Jose, California, and the City of Yuma, Arizona. Mr. Ellis has also recently completed MDG’s efforts on Houston Metro’s new Yard and Shops Facility. MDG served as the preliminary design lead and final design oversight.
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