Experienced transportation leaders will share lessons learned in making the leap from technical contributor to project manager. Participants will gain practical tools for:

Building scopes, budgets and schedules

Delegating without losing quality or control

Managing people, schedule pressures, interdisciplinary friction and difficult conversations with confidence

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

A practical, non-software-intensive session for project managers, discipline leads, reviewers, and supervisors. The session will cover navigating ORD models; understanding horizontal and vertical geometry; reviewing file relationships and model content; identifying common delivery risks; and applying clear QA/QC guidance and checklists during project reviews.

Speaker: Chase Horton, HNTB

GDOT Roadway Design/Project Managers

Session 1B - Advanced Level (Athena J): Staying Ahead of the GDOT ORD Workspace: Updates, Resources, and What Changed

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

Inside the GDOT Workspace: How Annotation, Labels, Levels, and Standards Work

This session is focused on updates to the GDOT OpenRoads Workspace. The session will address what changed, why it changed, impacts on active projects, migration considerations, where to find current resources, recommended implementation practices, known issues, documentation, and how users can provide feedback on future updates.

A behind-the-curtain session on the configuration that drives GDOT ORD annotation and labeling. Topics will include Civil Labeler, profile annotation, callouts, label preferences, text and leader controls, annotation groups, levels, line styles, colors, display rules, and troubleshooting common annotation issues.

Speaker: Titus Johnson, GDOT

Renea Clark, CROY

Paul Coughlin, VHB

Jake Mitchell, Lowe

Bentley Staff

Amber Phillips, State Environmental Administrator, GDOT

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

To register you must have a Level II Certification that is expiring within the year OR has lapsed

Michael Bywaletz, Gresham Smith

GDOT Office of Engineering Services

Session designed to expose visiting college students to the range of professional disciplines and careers available within the consulting engineering industry.

A panel featuring owner, designer, utility, and contractor perspectives will explore how decisions made during design impact constructability, quality and program delivery and how earlier collaboration can reduce conflicts, RFIs, change orders, delays and cost impacts.

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

A practical plan-production session covering the workflow from model development through PDF deliverables. Topics will include named boundaries, drawing and sheet models, cross-section sheet production, sheet seeds, references, level displays, annotation, Print Organizer/PSET workflows, roll plots, and troubleshooting common plotting issues.

BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP.

Speaker: George Carol, Kimley-Horn

Josh Buth, GDOT

Renea Clark, CROY

Jeff Harrison, Michael Baker

Chase Horton, HNTB

Session 2B - Advanced Level (Athena J): Model-Based Staging: Developing Efficient 19-Series Construction Staging Plans

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

A practical workflow session for producing 19-series construction staging plans in ORD. Topics will include model-based staging, staging cross-section generation, station and offset labeling, staging-specific levels and display controls, construction-phase organization, annotation methods, and efficient plan-production practices.

Speaker: Josh Buth, GDOT

George Carroll, Kimley-Horn

Paul Coughlin, VHB

Jeff Harrison, Michael Baker

Leon Karim, WSP

Jared London, Hussey Gay Bell

Bentley ORD Staff

Amber Phillips, State Environmental Administrator, GDOT

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

To register you must have a Level II Certification that is expiring within the year OR has lapsed

Michael Bywaletz, Gresham Smith

GDOT Office of Engineering Services

A candid, case-study-driven discussion with design, construction and owner representatives. Using real world problems discovered during construction, participants will work backward to determine what happened, why it wasn't identified earlier and where in the project lifecycle it could have been prevented. Topics covered include utilities, MOT, interdisciplinary coordination, design assumptions, RFIs, change orders and constructability.

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

A hands-on technical session covering corridor and template development in the GDOT Workspace. Topics will include template point naming, feature definitions, component and point behavior, triangulation, plan display, quantity reporting, parametric constraints, end conditions, point controls, and recommended corridor modeling practices. This session is well suited for a workshop format.

BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP.

Speaker: Garrett Smith, VHB

Josh Buth, GDOT

Jared London, Hussey Gay Bell

Brittany Tyson, VHB

Amber Phillips, State Environmental Administrator, GDOT

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

To register you must have a Level II Certification that is expiring within the year OR has lapsed

Michael Bywaletz, Gresham Smith

GDOT Office of Engineering Services

The success of a transportation project is often the result of effective communication and coordination among the various disciplines. In this session, a multi-disciplined group of practitioners will share their perspectives on coordination breakdowns and the project management practices that will keep them from happening on your next project. Participants will learn how to:

Anticipate the issues where disciplines can sometimes collide.

Run coordination meetings that keep everyone aligned.

Communicate across disciplines to prevent competing priorities from turning into conflict.

Proactively and effectively communicate bad news, its impacts and potential solutions.

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

A technical modeling session focused on difficult roadway and roadway-to-bridge interface features. Topics will include intersections, islands, driveways, curb ramps, civil cells, bridge end rolls, box culverts, wingwalls, and other specialty conditions that require workflows beyond a typical corridor model.

BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP.

Speaker: Jeff Harrison, Michael Baker

Josh Buth, GDOT

Leon Karim, WSP

Jared London, Hussey Gay Bell

Aman Mathur, TY Lin

Jake Mitchell, Lowe

Amber Phillips, State Environmental Administrator, GDOT

You Must Pre-register by October 31 by emailing alia@acecga.org

To register you must have a Level II Certification that is expiring within the year OR has lapsed

Michael Bywaletz, Gresham Smith

GDOT Office of Engineering Services

Carla Benton-Hooks, Environmental Program Manager (Districts 3 & 6), GDOT

Sam Harris, State Traffic Engineer, GDOT

Dave Peters, Design Policy & Support, GDOT

Maria Roux, Chief Procurement Officer, GDOT

Robert Elam, Assistant State Roadway Design Engineer, GDOT

Amber Phillips, State Environmental Administrator, GDOT

Patrick Allen, Construction Division Director, GDOT

Sam Harris, State Traffic Engineer, GDOT

Andrew Hoenig, P3/ DB Pre-Let Administrator, GDOT

Chandria Brown, P3 Division Pre-Let Assistant Administrator, GDOT

In this session, local government officials will learn how to ensure they are complying with the stringent federal deadlines and performance obligations to avoid claw back of local direct grant funds.

Speaker: Nikki Parris, AtkinsRealis; successful local government and FHWA representatives