Previous Trainings

For those who are new to bridge asset management.
This informational webinar is designed to introduce you to the basic principles and resources for establishing an asset management plan for your bridge inventory.

Tuesday: 12:00-4:00pm (ET) – Bridge Maintenance Workshop
Wednesday: 8:00am-4:00pm (ET) – Conference Sessions
Thursday: 8:00am-12:00pm (ET) – Pavement Preservation Workshop

Dr. David Jones, University of California – Davis will present how to use performance-based specifications to reduce your maintenance costs and improve the performance of your gravel roads. He will discuss the small changes to your existing test methods that will give you the data you need to better understand and predict how your roads will perform and what you can do to improve that performance. You’ll learn how to combat common performance problems like washboarding, raveling, eroding surfaces, and excessive dust. Web-based tools for blending gravel and chemical treatment selection will be demonstrated.

In this webinar you’ll learn how to:In this webinar you’ll learn strategies for facilitating a difficult meeting. Whether you’re dealing with attendees going off on tangents, discussing contingent topics, or heated disagreements that come up in the moment, this webinar will give you the skills to handle whatever your meeting throws at you.
• Facilitate meetings to achieve a specific outcome.
• Prepare attendees to increase engagement.
• Write and effective agenda.
• Manage your meeting time.
• Assign action items.
• Follow up after the meeting to assure follow through.

This 2-day class will cover welding & cutting safety, duty cycle, welding defects, equipment maintenance, demonstrations, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW.

This workshop will consist of current topics related to bridge maintenance. The intended audience is engineers and managers who desire to increase their understanding of maintenance options and methods by which repairs are made. See page 3 of the flyer for a sample of past topics.

This 2-day class will cover welding & cutting safety, duty cycle, welding defects, equipment maintenance, demonstrations, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW.

Bridge Week Day 2 will now have two half-day workshops. Dr. Sherif El-Tawil, U of M, will deliver a workshop on UHPC covering material properties, qualification and acceptance, structural behavior and design, as well as applications of UHPC technology. MDOT Bureau of Bridges and Structures, Structure Construction Group will provide a presentation on Bridge Rehabilitation specifications, best practices, and dos/don’ts.

Updates (MDOT, Local Bridge Program, FHWA, TAMC, QA/QC), Managing Aging Culverts, Normalization of Deviance, MDOT Specifications & Protective Coatings for Bridge Preservation, Big Erick’s Bridge, New Macomb County Bridges, Mackinac Bridge

In this webinar you’ll learn how to:In this webinar you’ll learn strategies for facilitating a difficult meeting. Whether you’re dealing with attendees going off on tangents, discussing contingent topics, or heated disagreements that come up in the moment, this webinar will give you the skills to handle whatever your meeting throws at you.
• Facilitate meetings to achieve a specific outcome.
• Prepare attendees to increase engagement.
• Write and effective agenda.
• Manage your meeting time.
• Assign action items.
• Follow up after the meeting to assure follow through.