Public Works & Utilities

Highlights

Remote alarm notifications add firewall as utilities face mounting threats of cyberattacks

Municipal utilities are critical to national security, economic stability, and public health and...

Infrastructure improvements in cities often feature clean energy or connected technologies

The most in-demand products and services in local governments fall into three interconnected...

EVs are coming in a big way – Will charging infrastructure be ready?

The California Air Resources Board recently announced a new goal of tripling electric vehicle...

Commentary

Adaptive reuse and municipal facilities: Strengthening mutual trust

Every community has its share of underutilized buildings—empty warehouses, shuttered schools, abandoned grocery stores and retail strip malls, and aging postal facilities—that have reached the end of their useful lives. Many pose safety concerns, while others often become magnets for crime. With the cost of construction increasing year after year, many municipalities are taking another look […]

Article

Ventilation optimization: The key to decarbonizing public buildings

Public agencies are among those taking aggressive steps to decarbonize their buildings in an effort to reach the shared goal of net zero CO2 emissions by 2050—the level we need to hit if we are to avoid the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. A growing number of cities are implementing carbon reduction […]

Article

Infrastructure funding offers unprecedented opportunity to build community-level climate resilience

Last month, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report. At the core of the report is a stark warning that, to date, our efforts to adapt to the changing climate are not enough to protect people and ecosystems around the globe. But here in the United States, there is some […]

Article

How to determine if a job order contracting program is right for your organization

Is your organization challenged with procuring high-quality construction projects competitively and efficiently? Job order contracting (JOC) can help. As a rapid procurement delivery method, JOC creates value for owners and contractors. By facilitating competitively awarded, task-order based contracts JOC helps save time and money, organizes procurement and contract management for construction programs, and creates a […]

Article

How to ensure your community engagement isn’t ableist

Community engagement can be municipal leaders’ most potent tool. It’s an opportunity to learn what your residents need and want, and then to deliver it with their partnership. However, community engagement only works if the wholecommunity is engaged—not just part of it. And unfortunately, community engagement is frequently exclusionary. One group often excluded from community […]

News

One year on, public officials laud success of the American Rescue Plan (ARPA)

With businesses shuttered and economic uncertainty dominating discourse over the last few years, the fiscal toll over the last year felt by everyday people has been severe—with the blow lessened by national initiatives like the American Rescue Plan (ARPA), which was enacted exactly a year ago Friday. Federal support through initiatives ARPA and the CARES […]

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Infrastructure report highlights challenges anticipated by local leaders in coming years

Remember when patrons could order a coffee without talking around a plastic barrier, and N95 masks were most often used within the construction industry? Twenty-twenty-two is just two years removed from the pandemic’s start, but it feels worlds apart. From more people than ever working from their couches to selectboard meetings held online, the pandemic […]

Article

Local governments rely on ICMA to help make communities more resilient and sustainable

ICMA is a global association of professional city and county managers and other employees who serve local governments. In addition to offering a variety of powerful programs, including an initiative that aims to achieve equity and social justice, to affirm human dignity, and to improve the quality of life for the individual and the community, […]

Article

Public-private partnership as a tool for EV infrastructure

While market trends and predictions certainly foreshadow a wide-scale, almost exponential use of electric vehicles (EVs) over the next five to seven years, practically speaking, full acceptance of EV is contingent on various factors, foremost being a more comprehensive national network of supercharging stations and enhanced EV battery life. Tesla was prescient on many points […]

News

Climate report from UN warns of ‘dangerous and widespread disruption in nature’

Easily missed amid news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the latest United Nations climate report released last week is ominous, pointing to “widespread deterioration” of the natural world as we know it. Climate change, it warns, “is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature,” already impacting billions of people. “This report is a dire warning about […]

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Public Works & Utilities

Highlights

Remote alarm notifications add firewall as utilities face mounting threats of cyberattacks

Infrastructure improvements in cities often feature clean energy or connected technologies

EVs are coming in a big way – Will charging infrastructure be ready?

Commentary

Adaptive reuse and municipal facilities: Strengthening mutual trust

Article

Ventilation optimization: The key to decarbonizing public buildings

Article

Infrastructure funding offers unprecedented opportunity to build community-level climate resilience

Article

How to determine if a job order contracting program is right for your organization

Article

How to ensure your community engagement isn’t ableist

News

One year on, public officials laud success of the American Rescue Plan (ARPA)

News

Infrastructure report highlights challenges anticipated by local leaders in coming years

Article

Local governments rely on ICMA to help make communities more resilient and sustainable

Article

Public-private partnership as a tool for EV infrastructure

News

Climate report from UN warns of ‘dangerous and widespread disruption in nature’

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