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Education Foundation awards more than $100,000 in grants to Oak Ridge educators

Oak Ridge Today Posted at   The Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation awarded more than $101,000 in grants to Oak Ridge teachers on Wednesday, during teacher appreciation week. “Regrettably, due to COVID-19 concerns, there will not be an awards ceremony again this year,” a press release said. However, the Education Foundation partnered with Oak Ridge Utility District and Millborne Bakery to deliver cookies for all staff in each school during Teacher Appreciation Week. The Foundation said it wants to honor and recognize the 2021 grant recipients in Oak Ridge Schools as follows: Glenwood Elementary Amelia Bell (Every Day Counts: Flipping the Script on Truancy)

Deck rehabilitation on the Delaware Memorial Bridge gives a historic structure another half-century of service life

Peter J. Seibert, Shekhar K. Scindia, and Abate Tewelde / May 05, 2021 / 6 minute read The U.S. faces an unprecedented challenge in maintaining and rehabilitating its aging transportation infrastructure. Agencies in every state are looking for innovative ways to extend the life span of the existing bridges and maximize the efficiency of their limited budgets. The recently completed Delaware Memorial Bridge (DMB) pilot project demonstrated a cost-effective solution that delivered a 50-year life cycle bridge deck rehabilitation with minimal traffic disruption. The DMB is a twin steel suspension bridge with a length of 10,765 ft and a vertical clearance of approx. 174 ft. It is a vital transportation link for commerce in the Northeast and connects the states of Delaware and New Jersey over the Delaware River. It is the southernmost fixed vehicular structure over the Delaware River and often sees over 80,000 vehicles crossing daily on I-295 and U.S. Route 40. The first was originally

Struggling to create buy-in for new construction tech? 5 ways thinking small can help.

By Infotech Humans are a fickle bunch. We moan and gripe about the way things are and throw riots when things change. It’s never really about the “old way” and the “new way” - it’s that interim change period that mucks things up. The old way is comfortable and the new way may be better, but getting there takes effort and compromise. Often, it’s easier for people to convince themselves that the way we’ve always done things is the best way rather than putting in the effort to adapt and learn. The adoption of new technology is often a struggle in the construction industry. With FHWA promoting the adoption of e-Construction solutions through their Every Day Counts initiatives, more leaders are trying to find ways to create organizational buy-in and train their staff. Even when new tech is adopted, longtime field personnel may be resistant to the change their supervisors are pushing. Despite the ease e-Construction platforms introduce to common processes like daily repor

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