Be prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws at your municipality this winter season with this one-day intensive workshop.
Managing Operations is designed for winter road maintenance professionals, from managers, supervisors to operators and transportation professionals.
Hear from experts in the field covering a wide variety of winter road maintenance issues from communicating your message, technology, MMS, safety, legal obligations, salt management, hiring and retaining talent to dealing with operator harassment.
This one-day workshop includes an exhibitor hall and networking time to discuss winter road issues with fellow industry experts.
Join like-minded individuals all under one roof discussing best practices and new ideas in protecting yourself, your team, and your municipality during the winter road clearing season.
Course Description
This course is designed to illustrate the necessity to create and maintain accurate and current records with goals and targets of roadway maintenance standards together with documentation to mitigate municipal risk arising from perceived hazardous road conditions within the municipalities’ road allowances. This course specifically will emphasize the need to produce and retain an appropriate Levels of Service document with a supplementary Standard Operating Procedures document.
Learning objectives / Course goals:
- Recognize and Define the influence that Risk Management/Record-Keeping and Asset Management impose on Levels of Service and Standard Operating Procedures
- Interpret the role of an effective LOS and SOP within a municipality
- Develop a practicable LOS and SOP balancing Risk Analysis, Asset Management and Best Practices
- Examine the process required to create a LOS and SOP
- Propose and produce a sustainable validated LOS and SOP
Required Texts, Materials, or Equipment
- Participation in a Good Roads course with some basic knowledge of municipal risk mitigation
- Participants should attend with an understanding of road maintenance equipment and road classifications/priorities
Major Assignments: Descriptions
Participants will be required to, by course completion provide the instructor with a brief example (Paper) of a LOS or SOP paper plus completion of the course exam.
Class Participation
Participants will be encouraged in an open forum to discuss their challenges and the positives of working with LOS and SOP documents.
Course Grading
Explanation of Grading System
- Exam : 75 % of total grade (Approximately 20 questions)
- Paper : 25 % of total grade (Practical of creating a LOS or SOP)
An overall grade of 65% is required to pass
Introduction
Trenchless technologies include methods and tools for underground pipelines and utilities’ new installation, replacement, rehabilitation, locating, and condition assessment with minimum excavation from the surface. This course will present state-of-the-art trenchless methods and techniques to install, replace, and rehabilitate aging pipelines and utility ducts efficiently and cost-effectively. Topics include trenchless project feasibility analysis and planning; topographic and geotechnical considerations; selecting appropriate trenchless technology, pipe materials, and lining materials; risk analysis; and quality assurance and quality control. Furthermore, pipeline condition assessment techniques will be presented. Finally, the industry’s good practice guidelines, standards and specifications will be discussed.
Why Trenchless Technologies?
Financial Benefits (Cost Savings)
- The City of Winnipeg saved over $130 million using CIPP (cured-in-place-pipe) on 145 km of sewer renovation. Another 433 km of pipeline needs rehabilitation with potential cost savings of $390 million
- The City of Hamilton has renewed more than 320 km of mainline sewer using CIPP technology and has realized cost avoidances of approximately $200 million
Environmental Benefits
- Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
- Lesser disruption to built and natural environment (50:1 earthwork factor when comparing open trench and trenchless construction)
- Suited for deeper installations, environmentally sensitive areas, contaminated underground
Social Benefits
- Minimal disruption to traffic and businesses
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a broader understanding of the vast array of trenchless methods, processes, and techniques to rehabilitate and replace underground pipelines and utility ducts
- Describe the limitations and benefits of various trenchless technologies
- Become familiar with the industry’s best practice guidelines, standards, and specifications
- Select appropriate rehabilitation and replacement techniques based on factors such as pipeline condition, failure modes, surface and underground conditions, and cost
- Take advanced courses on trenchless technologies for detailed information on planning, design and construction fundamentals
Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- An Overview of Trenchless Technology
- Classification Systems for Trenchless Methods
- Trenchless Construction vs. Open Trench Construction Methods
- Trenchless Rehabilitation Technology Market Overview: Assessments, Classifications, and Rehabilitation Methods
- Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
- ASCE Process for Investigating and Documenting Existing Utilities
- Four SUE Quality Levels
- CSA S250 Standard for Mapping of Underground Utilities
- How Does SUE Helps Reduce Project Risk and Optimize Cost?
- Case Studies
- Trenchless Methods for New Pipe Installation
- Horizontal Directional Drilling
- Pipe Jacking and Microtunnelling
- Pipe Bursting
- Pipe Ramming, Auger Boring, and Impact Moling
- Trenchless Method Selection Process for New Pipe Installations
- Pipeline Condition Assessment
- Gravity Pipeline Condition Assessment Technology
- Maintenance Chamber and Sewer Lateral Assessments
- Pressure Pipeline Condition Assessment Technology
- Pipeline Condition Classification and Condition Rating Systems
- Watermain Condition Classification System and Condition Rating
- Sewer Condition Classification System (PACP)
- Lateral Sewer Pipe Condition Classification (LACP)
- Rationalization of Sewer Rehabilitation Decision Making
- Maintenance Chambers Condition Assessment and Rehabilitation
- Maintenance Chamber Classification (MACP)
- Overview of Maintenance Chamber Rehabilitation
- Trenchless Methods for Pipe Rehabilitation
- Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) for Gravity and Pressure Pipeline
- CIPP for Sewer Lateral
- Spot Repair, Stabilization
- Sliplining, Segmental GRP Lining
- Modified Sliplining (Thermoform, Spiral Wound)
- Spray-in-Place-Pipe (SIPP)
- Rationalization of Gravity and Pressure Pipe Rehabilitation
Who Should Attend?
Consultants, Contractors, Utility Owners, Municipal Engineers and Technologists
What Will You Get?
• Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Professional Development Hours
• Course handouts
• Lunch and refreshments
Course Description
A road safety audit is a formal examination of a future road or traffic project, or an existing road or road-related area, in which a team of appropriately qualified persons identifies deficiencies with the potential to cause crashes in the project. A road safety audit is not simply a compliance check against design standards or other technical guidance. Strict adherence to design standards does not guarantee safety since standards are not always written with safety as a primary objective. A Road Safety Audit considers the safety of all users to proactively identify issues that may cause harm to users and makes recommendations to remove or mitigate these issues.
This three-day training program will teach practitioners how to conduct a Road Safety Audit in accordance with the 2023 Good Roads Road Safety Audit Guidelines.
This course is relevant to individuals who wish to become a Road Safety Auditor or those required to manage the Road Safety Audit process and its outcomes. Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be eligible to register as a Road Safety Auditor in Ontario.
Course Content
- What are Road Safety Audits and why we do them?
- Stages of a Road Safety Audit
- Design stage Road Safety Audits
- Auditing for Pedestrians, Cyclists & Motorcyclists
- Road Safety Auditor Accreditation and Registration
- Preparation and presentation of Road Safety Audit report
- Road Safety Audits within the Safe System
The interactive Workshop is a combination of theory, practical exercises, and fieldwork.
Who Should Attend
- Provincial and local government personnel
- Engineers, planners, designers, traffic managers
- Consultants wishing to undertake road safety audits
- Road safety practitioners
Listen to instructor Kenn Beer as he discusses Road Safety Audits with Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast: https://youtu.be/QO6U4m56zjg
Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast speak to instructors Kenn Beer and Max McCardel as they complete the Road Safety Audit Course: https://youtu.be/GzRS6QpEygU?si=EyD50cv7-sMWP-OR
Information about the Road Safety Audit course: https://youtu.be/c2vefQ35ZN0?si=C2-FtxjwjEPrLBJm
Meals
A light breakfast, lunch, and refreshments are included in the registration fee.
Course Description
A road safety audit is a formal examination of a future road or traffic project, or an existing road or road-related area, in which a team of appropriately qualified persons identifies deficiencies with the potential to cause crashes in the project. A road safety audit is not simply a compliance check against design standards or other technical guidance. Strict adherence to design standards does not guarantee safety since standards are not always written with safety as a primary objective. A Road Safety Audit considers the safety of all users to proactively identify issues that may cause harm to users and makes recommendations to remove or mitigate these issues.
This three-day training program will teach practitioners how to conduct a Road Safety Audit in accordance with the 2023 Good Roads Road Safety Audit Guidelines.
This course is relevant to individuals who wish to become a Road Safety Auditor or those required to manage the Road Safety Audit process and its outcomes. Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be eligible to register as a Road Safety Auditor in Ontario.
Course Content
- What are Road Safety Audits and why we do them?
- Stages of a Road Safety Audit
- Design stage Road Safety Audits
- Auditing for Pedestrians, Cyclists & Motorcyclists
- Road Safety Auditor Accreditation and Registration
- Preparation and presentation of Road Safety Audit report
- Road Safety Audits within the Safe System
The interactive Workshop is a combination of theory, practical exercises, and fieldwork.
Who Should Attend
- Provincial and local government personnel
- Engineers, planners, designers, traffic managers
- Consultants wishing to undertake road safety audits
- Road safety practitioners
Listen to instructor Kenn Beer as he discusses Road Safety Audits with Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast: https://youtu.be/QO6U4m56zjg
Thomas and Jared of the Good Roads Podcast speak to instructors Kenn Beer and Max McCardel as they complete the Road Safety Audit Course: https://youtu.be/GzRS6QpEygU?si=EyD50cv7-sMWP-OR
Information about the Road Safety Audit course: https://youtu.be/c2vefQ35ZN0?si=C2-FtxjwjEPrLBJm
Course Content
- Asphalt technology
- Concrete technology
- Grade construction
- Utilities
- Trails
- Municipal law
- Traffic control
- Planning
- Introduction to design and soils
- Frost action
- Pavement structure and granulars
Course Objective
This is an entry level course, which provides students with a basic foundation prior to attending any of the C.S. Anderson Road School Courses. The T.J. Mahony Road School is a two-year course comprised of two separate semesters. Road construction and road maintenance are offered in alternate years.
Who Should Attend
Public works employees involved in road construction and/or maintenance.
Accreditation
- The T.J. Mahony completion certificate is one of the options for the AORS Certified Road Supervisors Certification program, contact AORS for additional details.
- Must take both construction and maintenance to obtain 10 points credit in the technical specialist program
- The Engineering Institute of Canada awards 2 Continuing Education Units to this course.
