August 2020

The Covid pandemic has dramatically altered the way we do business and maintenance has not been immune. In this episode we’re having a discussion with the leadership of the AASHTO Maintenance Committee – Maintenance Operations Technical Working Group on the impacts they’re seeing in maintenance operations in response to Covid safety guidelines while still maintaining mobility across the roadway network.

In this episode listen in as Brad Darr, State Maintenance Engineer for the North Dakota DOT, Chair of the Maintenance Operations Technical Work Group and SICOP steering committee member along with his Vice Chairs on the Maintenance Operations TWG, Rebecca Allmeroth, Chief Safety and Operations Officer at the Missouri DOT and Emily McGraw, State Maintenance Engineer at the North Carolina DOT tell how their three state DOTs responded.

In this episode of SICOP Talks Winter Ops were visiting with Frank Rizzardo, President of Emcon Services, an employee owned construction company, with maintenance contracts across Canada that includes providing winter service in some of the harshest environments in North America. Frank shares his story of how British Columbia transitioned from an agency that self-performed maintenance into one that contracts for those services and his take on winter service from a contractors perspective.

You can learn more about Emcon Services and their winter maintenance operations by visiting their website at Emcon Services