Roundabouts: From Idea to Implementation

Workshop Content:

Planning and Feasibility

  • Policy Issues
  • Roundabout screening
  • Intersection control
  • Accessibility issues
  • Planning Guidance
  • Feasibility problems
  • Feasibility clinic and case studies
  • Questions and discussion

Preliminary Design

  • Capacity and safety theory
  • Design guidance
  • Design principles
  • Design checks
  • Cost sharing, utilities, property requirements
  • Design problems
  • Questions and discussion

Implementation

  • Detailed design
  • Designing for expansion
  • Designing for maintenance and service vehicles
  • Construction staging
  • Landscaping and illumination
  • Pavement markings and signs
  • Educating the public
  • Questions and discussion

Note: Participants are encouraged to bring a roundabout proposal review.

Who Should Attend:

Municipal and Consulting Engineers, technicians and technologists, planners, and project managers.

Managing Winter Operations Workshop

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.

 

Road Safety Audit Course – Kingston

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.

Road Safety Audit Course – Guelph

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

Introduction to Contract Law

Workshop Objectives

You  will gain a thorough grounding in the laws governing municipal construction and rehabilitation projects, and will learn about the most common types of contracts used for municipal projects, and become familiar with the risks, liabilities, and consequences of substandard performance, liens and claims. Participants will also learn about the rights, limitations, and obligations affecting their relationship with contractors and the public and be able to set ethical ground rules for dealing with contractors.

Workshop Content

  • Formation of a contract including offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity and legality
  • Factors affecting the contractual relationship including mistake, misrepresentation, duress, undue influence, conditional contacts, privity of contract and assignment
  • The end of the contractual relationship including performance, breach, discharge by agreement, frustration, remedies for breach of contract
  • The court system including adjudication and alternative dispute resolution
  • The 3 most common types of contracts
  • How to read, interpret and administer the contract
  • Parts of a typical contract
  • Performance bonds, warranties, & letters of credit
  • Liability and insurance
  • The best ways of dealing with substandard performance problems
  • Ethics in the workplace and your relationship with contractors

Who Should Attend

This workshop is recommended for new managers/inspectors and those with 1-5 years of experience administering contracts for municipal construction and rehabilitation projects.

Accreditation

This course is recognized by:

  • This course may be used as credit for technical specialists programs only. Please contact OACETT to make sure that this course satisfies your particular examination program for certification. Point Value = 2
  • The Engineering Institute of Canada awards 7 Professional Development Hours to this workshop.

Format

Through lecture, class discussion, case studies and small group exercises, participants will review examples of case law that illustrate how the courts have applied the principles discussed in this course. Attention will be given to the factual situations of each case, along with the lessons that can be learned from the related judgments. The court process will be introduced and will include the benefits of alternative dispute resolution including negotiation, mediation and arbitration.

 

 

Advanced Contract Law

Workshop Objectives

Discuss administrative issues pertaining to the performance of a contract and variation of a contract. The goal is to equip you with the skills needed to make sound decisions based upon the express and implied terms set out in the contract. Attention will also be given to ethical issues involving contract administration, risk analysis, being called to court as a witness, and other relevant issues related to contract administration.

Recommendation: You should be familiar with requests for tenders and construction contracts.

Workshop Content

• Review of basic contract law principles and terms

• The tendering process

• Liquidated damages and penalties

• Contract performance and variations

• Ethical considerations and relationships

• Being called as a witness

Who Should Attend

Employees with over 5 years’ experience administering municipal contracts or those who have taken the Introduction to Contract Law workshop.

Accreditation

This workshop is recognized by:

  • This course may be used as credit for technical specialist programs only. Point Value = 5
  • The Engineering Institute of Canada awards 7 Professional Development Hours to this workshop.

Format

Through lectures, class discussion and small group exercises, participants will undertake an in-depth examination of tenders, construction contract issues, and leading case law relating to construction matters. Best practices when preparing a request for tender and considering bids will be thoroughly scrutinized, along with the relationship between the municipality and contractors and the need for accurate and timely documentation of facts.