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Beyond the Blueprint: Contracting 101

Public Works Group Blog

CMAR (Construction Manager at Risk) : Contractor in early, builds with a price capteamwork meets accountability. Public-Private Partnership (3P or PPP) : Private cash meets public needfirms fund, build, and often run the show long-term, splitting risks and rewards. Separate lanes, clear rules. Got a stake in this?

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Using AI to Generate Images for Public Works – Post 2

Public Works Group Blog

This tool is fairly easy to use; however, you will need to make a free account to access it. Just like with Canva, you will need an account to try out DALL-E 2. Both were free to use, although Canva has some terms of use you may want to check out if you are using the images you create on their site for work. The first is Canva.

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How to Quantify Benefits of Trees

Public Works Group Blog

Other resources to check out include their User Forum , LinkedIn account , 2024 i-Tree Open Academy. I-Tree Logo The post How to Quantify Benefits of Trees first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. The i-Tree site also lists information regarding its use internationally with examples of its use in other counties.

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Using AI to Generate Images for Public Works – Post 2

Public Works Group Blog

This tool is fairly easy to use; however, you will need to make a free account to access it. Just like with Canva, you will need an account to try out DALL-E 2. In this post, I’ll talk about a few more image generating tools I have tried. The first is Canva.

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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

The post Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3 appeared first on Public Purpose.

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U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorized

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Allows for consideration of the extent to which projects awarded Public Works grants mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events, support outdoor recreation, and promote blue economy activities. Currently, two EDA University Centers operate in North Carolina: one at Fayetteville State University and another at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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AI trustworthiness: Is the biggest AI challenge cultivating trust?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Recent releases of powerful large language models demonstrate that AI technologies are advancing much faster than the standards, benchmarks, policy, governance, or accountability mechanisms necessary to keep them trustworthy. Even defining what AI trustworthiness looks like has been a challenge. That’s an important start.