State Tech Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

An early adopter of smart meters, Houston Public Works plans to install new smart sensors throughout its community to better track water usage and monitor and maintain the health of its water distribution system, including detecting leaks.

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Public Works Group Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The post Beyond the Blueprint: Contracting 101 first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. After that, well roll through the rest, tying it up with a showdown of what fits when. Got a stake in this? Share your take belowwhats contracting mean to your crew? Lets get into it.

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence or AI may eventually be a really useful tool for those of us working in the public works field. The post Using AI to Generate Images for Public Works first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. As noted in the last blog post, Can AI Help Fix a Water Main Break?

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

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 post Using AI to Generate Images for Public Works Post 2 first appeared on Public Works Group Blog.

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 29, 2024

While a mild winter might yield 50,000 potholes in the city, street maintenance crew members can fill as many as 80,000 during a year with a big freeze, says Memphis’ Public Works… In areas such as Memphis, Tenn., that have ample traffic and potentially months of cold, snowy weather, the cycle can be especially brutal.

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GovPilot

JANUARY 20, 2023

But a lot goes on behind the scenes of a department of public works. Most residents don’t consider what it takes to ensure that their local infrastructure is safe and functional. DPW is critical to constructing, maintaining, repairing, and improving local roads, bridges, and other critical government assets.

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PubWorks Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When working with Public Works departments around the country, we often hear the struggles that organizations face daily. The biggest thing we hear from public works departments is that they are still relying on homemade databases, paper files or memory to keep track of assets, work activities and job costs.

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

AI-generated image of a water valve In the first post on this topic I introduced the Midjourney AI tool which can be used to generate images. In this post, I’ll talk about a few more image generating tools I have tried. The first is Canva. This tool is fairly easy to use; however, you will need to make a free account to access it.

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Public Works Group Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For some time I have been thinking about how AI could be used to assist civil engineers and the public works industry. If anyone else has tried creating something for engineering or public works, I’d also be very interested in exploring it. first appeared on Public Works Group Blog.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cities, via their public works departments, are eligible recipients of these grants and are encouraged […] Source

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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 4, 2024

Edward Filadelfia, Deputy Public Works Director, Riverside CA Movie comparisons aside, wastewater monitoring is an important public health tool for municipalities. “Wastewater monitoring is like the movie Minority Report, we know something is going to happen before it does.”

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Public Works Group Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

I-Tree Logo The post How to Quantify Benefits of Trees first appeared on Public Works Group Blog.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MAY 1, 2020

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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

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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NLC (National League of Cities)

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

From public works and sanitation to economic development and community engagement, the role that city governments play in serving their local communities is complex and multifaceted. When the work is this widespread, communicating across teams can be confusing and time-consuming, and its easy to slip into silos.

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A Library Writer's Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Working title: Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians Editors: Whitney Kramer (Cornell University), Evan Muzzall (Stanford University), and Iliana Burgos (Cornell University) Chapter proposal submission deadline: July 15, 2023 Publisher: ACRL View the full call for proposals.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As they consider where to allocate these funds, public infrastructure owners, especially Department of Transportation (DOT) and public works agencies, have to assess the condition of their assets, determine what to prioritize while rebuilding, and identify what needs maintenance.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This is open to city, county, public works leaders at all levels of service. Forms for the Crown Communities and Exemplary Public Servants awards are live now on the AC&C website. Nominees are judged on their accomplishments and the impact these actions had on their communities.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Working with AWS Partner OpenGov on a new solution, Grand Island’s finance department saved 1,000 hours of manual labor—equating to half the time of a full-time staffer.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Securing government backstops for high-value AI public works. Lehane said such an Act would address the planning, permitting and payment needed to “build out a transmission grid [that] is optimized for the delivery of the type of commerce that can be generated by AI information and AI deployment,” said Lehane.

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Being in public works, I can’t help but wonder about all the impacts to our industry So today I thought about using the ChatGPT tool to see if it could help me figure out how to fix a water main break. After all, this is a common issue that comes up in public works, and I was curious to see how AI would respond.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

But it’s the utility companies in public works who are responsible for clearing the road when a power line is down or when a gas line must be shut off. After a disaster ensues, re-entry teams, for example, might be made up of firefighters and law enforcement professionals.

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Public Works Group Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For some time I have been thinking about how AI could be used to assist civil engineers and the public works industry. If anyone else has tried creating something for engineering or public works, I’d also be very interested in exploring it. first appeared on Public Works Group Blog.

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Being in public works, I can’t help but wonder about all the impacts to our industry So today I thought about using the ChatGPT tool to see if it could help me figure out how to fix a water main break. After all, this is a common issue that comes up in public works, and I was curious to see how AI would respond.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 3, 2022

The post Free and Online Access to Building Codes first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. One important thing to keep in mind is even though the codes are there for free for us to read, they are still under copyright. So in accessing and using them we need to make sure we don’t infringe on the ICC copyright.

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Public Works Group Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

I-Tree Logo The post How to Quantify Benefits of Trees first appeared on Public Works Group Blog.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The heads of these services sometimes report directly to the city/county managers, or they may function as a unit within other departments, ranging from code enforcement and public works to health and human services to economic development.

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Public Works Group Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

The post April is National Safe Digging Month first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. It was a good lesson to me that before you do anything in an area of a locate where you are putting something in the ground, you need to locate that utility first or move away from it if possible.

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GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Capturing those locations for public works dispatchers in real time means knowing where the plows are and deploying them in response to residents’ complaints. It enables agencies to assess data as it comes in and use it to plan future responses. Buzzelli cites the example of snowplows equipped with location sensors.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

NIST launched the Generative AI Public Working Group in June 2023, with a short-term goal of developing a profile describing how the AI RMF may be used to support generative AI technologies. Cultivate trust in AI, looking ahead There is much more to be done to cultivate trust in AI.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 4, 2022

Permits Green and Sustainable Buildings Electric Safety The post Interactive Sites, Games for Kids, and Building Safety Handouts first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. Safety Tip Handouts: Share or link to them on your own social media sites.

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PubWorks Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What’s the right mix for Public Works? Public Works departments will always have demand maintenance issues to contend with and while most recognize the benefits of adopting a planned maintenance approach, it can be hard to implement.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JUNE 1, 2021

Sometimes the position of emergency manager reports to a senior appointed official like the public works director or the fire chief. I was fortunate to work for a senior appointed official—a Deputy County Executive. I was fortunate to work for a senior appointed official—a Deputy County Executive. Everyone has a boss.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 9, 2022

The post National Building Code Adoption Tracking Portal (BCAT Portal) first appeared on Public Works Group Blog. The two mutual aid tabs show information regarding Emergency and Incident Management compacts.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Sixty feet below Macomb County, Michigan, the Public Works commissioner’s office is using drones and AI to inspect sewer lines. Something transformational is happening in an unexpected place.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 7, 2022

Other resources in the toolkit The FEMA Building Codes Toolkit also has a checklist with questions to ask your builder if you are having work done on your home or building a new home. The post What Homeowners Need to Know about Building Codes first appeared on Public Works Group Blog.

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