Professional Development Hours (PDHs) Archives

Reduced Load Period Model Overview Training

This is a quick course that will take less than 60 minutes of your time to complete before using the RLP model forms.

MTO (The Ontario Ministry of Transportation) and Good Roads are partnering to work together to encourage Good Roads member municipalities/First Nations to support and adopt MTO’s RLP Onset and Removal Model supported by data from its Road Weather Information System (RWIS).

MTO’s system allows municipalities to access frost depth, moisture, and temperature data by adopting the RLP Onset and Removal Model. The model will allow municipalities to optimize the timing of RLPs, including shortening the duration when conditions permit, which will help support the agriculture, agri-business and trucking industry, while protecting road infrastructure.

Please note, access to the course may take up to 24 hours following registration.

This is ideal for: Public Works Directors, Road Supervisors, Directors, Transportation, and County Engineers

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.

Creating Levels of Service & Standard Operating Procedures

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 to Trenchless Technology

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

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