Four Part Class: December 3, 4, 10 & 11

Time: 8:00am - 12:15pm    

The class is spread out over 4 days online to teach you new tips and techniques to complete your job correctly, safely, on time and on budget. Participants will receive an electronic version of the Inspector's Guide Book – a great for reference once in the field. The book reflects the specifics of the WA State geographic, trends, and requirements. It also includes two chapters to discuss federally funded project’s documentation processes and procedures and sustainable construction practices.   

     * Includes an electronic version of the 536-page Inspector’s Guide Book

     * Qualified for 1.6 CEU approved by APWA National and DOH for water certification

By attending this workshop, you will be better able to:

  • Analyze how agencies and contractors see the inspector’s role
  • Manage your projects better, realizing inspector’s role
  • Document your federally funded projects to ensure proper federal funds reimbursement to your agency
  • Identify how project management tools are used to prioritize, sequence and schedule tasks
  • List various methods to communicate with residents, businesses, the public and media
  • Apply current sustainable construction practices on your projects
  • Describe the general requirements for environmental management on a public works project site
  • Develop a project schedule using Critical Path Management

 Course Sections that will be presented are:

  1.  A Basic Overview
  2. Communication
  3. Documentation
  4. Risk Management  
  5. Pre-Construction Planning
  6. Regulatory Overview
  7. Earthwork Part 1 - Land Use Issues
  8. Earthwork Part 2 - General Construction Practices and Procedures
  9. Earthwork Part 3 - Soil Characteristics, Testing and Evaluation
  10. Construction Safety
  11. Underground Pipe Gravity Line
  12. Underground Pipe Installations
  13. Underground Pipe-Pressurized Line
  14. General Concrete Inspection
  15. Street and Surface Improvements HMAC
  16. Street and Surface Improvements PCCP
  17. General Structural Steel
  18. Scheduling
  19. Close-out Procedures

SPEAKER: Sam Yaghmaie, PE, LEED AP

Sam has 30 years of experience in field inspection, construction materials engineering, design, construction materials QA/QC, geotechnical engineering, and Construction/project management of multiple public and private projects. Sam is currently a participant in revising the APWA national inspector’s Inspection Guide Book and has presented multiple Inspector’s Training Workshops for the past 11 years. He has managed design and construction of transportation, transit, public buildings, dams, tunnels, high rises, and water & wastewater infrastructures in WA. Highlights of Sam’s construction projects include METRO KC Original Tunnel in Downtown Seattle, multiple transportation projects for Seattle DOT; Sound Transit; WSDOT, Cedar River Dam, Seattle Central Library, Brightwater WWTP, multiple WWTP Renovations at West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle, and WA State Convention and Trade Centers. Sam has been the Chair of National APWA Sustainable Transportation Subcommittee, APWA WA Construction Management Committee, and past president of CMAA WA during the past 10 years. He has been engaged in multiple public speaking and has published his technical articles at local and national magazines.

Contact

Sam Yaghmaie, for technical questions about this work shop at SamYaghmaie@kennedyjenks.com

COST: 

APWA WA Members - $640

Non APWA Members - $660