Smart Cities

Mr. Lamba is the Program Manager for the consulting firm, CH2M HILL’s Smart Infrastructure Solutions. His primary focus is exploring emerging technology and analytics-based decision support tools in transportation and infrastructure domains, to improve cost and operational efficiency, enhance customer service, support policy formulation, capital planning and asset management. His responsibilities also include a Smarter Cities Innovation Lab, which is designed to incubate new solutions to maturity. He is based in the Washington DC area and has spent the last 20 years working on Transportation related topics around the world for governments and private sector organizations. Prior to joining CH2M HILL in early 2014, Mr. Lamba spent over 10 years at IBM, where he was an Industry Leader in IBM’s Smarter Cities initiative. Mr. Lamba earned his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from IIT, Madras in India. He also has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Public Private Partnership in Virginia

Speaker: Mr. Dusty L. Holocombe

Mr. Holcombe serves as Deputy Director of the Virginia Office of Public-Private Partnerships (VAP3). He is responsible for administering the daily operations of the office for Virginia. In that role, he oversees all programmatic and development activities in identification, evaluation, and procurement of public-private projects.

 

 

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Management of Complex Projects

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Shane

Dr. Jennifer Shane, Associate Professor of  Construction Engineering in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental  Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU).

Dr. Shane talked about the shift in US infrastructure needs, changing from being primarily building new infrastructure to replacing, expanding, or renewing existing infrastructure. In this webinar Dr. Shane presented the five dimensional project management process developed to aid in successfully managing and delivering complex projects.

 

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Performance Specifications

Speaker: Mr. Sidney Scott, III, PE.

This webinar on “Performance Specifications – Delivering Performance and Harnessing the Innovation of American Industry to Build Better Transportation Infrastructure “, was a great success, with about 100 in attendance. At the University of Tennessee a whole class room of 25 students attended the webinar as a group. There was a good representation of practicing transportation professionals in the attendees as well, as evidenced by request for PDH certificates by 20 individuals. The interest of attendees was quite obvious from the number of questions that were asked and answered by the presenter Mr. Sydney Scott, P.E. Senior Vice President at Hill International.

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