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Technical Track 4: Water ResourcesTrack Chair: Mr. Rob Vining, HNTB Session 1: Wednesday, May 25, 2011; 2:30-4:00 p.m. Session will explore recent and impending water resources policy changes and their implications for small and large business and federal contracting. Government perspective as well as small and large business perspectives will delve into the current impacts on all affected parties. Recent policy changes are already impacting business. How are companies responding to those changes? How are companies preparing to respond to proposed changes? Are there differences in how small and large companies are responding? How are government enforcement agencies gearing up to handle the differences in policy and the impending changes meant for their staff? Moderator: Mr. Jim O'Brien, P.E., President, O'Brien Engineering, Inc. Speakers:
Session 2: Thursday, May 26, 2011; 9:00-10:15 a.m. With a need for a broader national flood risk management approach, state, local and federal agencies are looking back to past successes and failures of our nations flood systems. We have improved our processes and our levees, yet much must be done to bring our nation’s infrastructure up to an acceptable level of risk. The National Levee Safety Program has published recommendations for reducing risk, FEMA is bringing renewed focus on the National Flood Insurance Program through the Levee Accreditation Process, and the Corps of Engineers has developed new standards and processes; all to reduce risk to our nation. This session will examine improvements in flood risk management and how our nation is evaluating and improving our flood systems. Moderator: Mr. Tom Poer, P.E., Flood Risk Management Director, HNTB Speakers:
Session 3: Thursday, May 26, 2011; 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. The integration of environmental engineering, ecosystem restoration and sustainable design can yield successful stakeholder engagement and project outcome for water resource projects and programs. The complex interaction of local, state, public, private and federal stakeholder interests requires balancing competing uses of water and watersheds; retaining water and watershed functions; and supporting and sustaining systems for both human development activities and natural or ecological uses. A diverse panel will engage in an open discussion of the ongoing challenges, examples of successful and new approaches for sustainable water resources engineering and ecosystem restoration from the point of view of stakeholder groups, program directors and project managers delivering and developing water resources infrastructure. Moderator: Ms. Patricia Berryhill, Group Manager-Planning, HNTB Speakers:
Session 4: Thursday, May 26, 2011; 2:00-3:15 p.m. Session will present how major technological innovations are being applied to the design and construction of water resources projects. LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and GPR (ground penetrating radar) technologies provide true as-built data that can be incorporated into 3D design models. BIM (Building Information Model) technology can provide 3D design models with built-in clash detection and object identification for construction scheduling (4D), construction cost estimating (5D). Moderator: Mr. Roger Ward, National Practice Leader, HNTB Speakers:
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