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Maintaining Asphalt Pavements

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Are your asphalt pavements deteriorating faster than your budget—those pavements that were built in the boom and are now going bust? Learn practical pavement evaluation, repair, maintenance, and rehabilitation techniques to extend the life of your pavements while stretching your budgets.
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RA00315

Managing Snow and Ice Control Operations

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In this course, you will learn practical management approaches to help you respond to storm situations affecting urban and rural roadways, parking lots, sidewalks, and other facilities. You will learn how to establish plans and policies, select equipment, and properly time the use of plowing, chemical deicers and abrasives. Examples of effective anti-icing applications will also be discussed.
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RA00322

Municipal Engineering Fundamentals for Non-Engineers

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In this course, you will learn about key municipal engineering systems and about the concepts and methods used to design, operate, and maintain the following systems, specifically related to streets, water supply, sanitary sewer and storm drainage systems. You will also get the answers to some essential questions you must ask yourself and your team prior to designing any municipal system.
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RA00356

Pavement System Design

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Improve the design and performance of your pavement systems and learn how to predict their performance by starting with the fundamentals. You will learn the principles of stress and strain analyses in typical highway pavement structures, how to design new and rehabilitated flexible and rigid pavement structures, and how to use various mechanistic-empirical methods to conduct pavement analysis.  
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RA00392

Property Maintenance Code Compliance and Enforcement

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Ensure that your property maintenance and rental inspection programs are protecting the health and safety of the residents in your community. Learn key field inspection points to preserve the integrity of the housing stock, including residential construction, building systems, and health requirements. You will also learn practical ways to organize and effectively manage the programs in your office.
RA01552

Slope Stability and Landslides

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Learn how to investigate, analyze, design for, and remediate unstable soil and rock slopes, excavations, earth retention, and embankments. This course also covers: Shear strength and soil/rock properties Slope stability investigation, analysis, program demonstration, and reporting Case histories for landslides, rock falls, embankments, cut slopes, excavations and more
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RA00329

Soil Engineering for Non-Soils Engineers and Technicians

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Learn how and when to select soil tests, interpret investigation and specifications, and apply sound soil principles into your projects. Through practice-based examples, you'll understand the three main engineering properties of soil strength, settlement, and permeability. In addition, you'll learn applied soil compaction, soil improvement techniques and the use of geosynthetics in earthworks. Upon completion of this course, you will have information directly applicable to your workplace and be prepared to continue on your own with further study of soil and ground engineering.
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RA00334

Solving Neighborhood Traffic Problems

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Improve your understanding of residential neighborhood street design concepts, including current approaches that reduce traffic problems in existing neighborhoods. Learn from leaders of mature residential traffic control programs, see residential traffic control devices in the field, and try your hand at several problem-solving cases adapted from real life situations.
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RA00165
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