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Operational Technologies (OT) networks are faced with new challenges in maintaining and protecting their SCADA networks against modern threats. These critical networks face many threat actors and unapproved access can result in harm to public safety and/or finances. Cloud SCADA offers a modern solution to protect these systems while simultaneously improving operator SCADA access. Migrating your SCADA network to the cloud will streamline your SCADA operations while protecting your most critical assets. Cloud SCADA can provide operators with the ability to access a fully functional SCADA and Historian clients securely on their phones, tablets, or laptops. Managers can now have easy and reliable access to all their data through trending, historical analysis, and custom reports. Many municipalities throughout BC are seeing improved communication uptime in their OT network after swapping to cellular and fiber plans as a backbone of their Cloud SCADA network. We will discuss a high-level overview of how a Cloud SCADA solution can be securely implemented and utilized in your municipal applications.

The City of Winnipeg is trying something new. It is using Progressive Design Build (PDB) as its delivery model for its Biosolids Upgrade which has a budget of $1.035 Billion. This presentation will go over what PDB is, what hurdles the City had to do to switch to PDB, where the City is currently in the PDB process, and lessons learned from trying something new.

Wastewater and water project delivery is changing. Projects are most typically delivered using traditional methods such as Design-Bid-Build as they are the most common, well-understood models that provide perceived stability, certainty and confidence. However, in the aftermath of covid, the pressures have exponentially increased which has resulted in a paradigm shift. Project expectations have accelerated to greater speeds, higher quality and reduced rates, at a time when the risks are much greater as we are still living with the aftershock of unprecedented uncertainty and instability across all supply chains. There continues to be an ongoing desperate struggle to supply materials, equipment and labor to meet specific project schedules, demands and expectations. Regardless of which role any of us plays in our water and wastewater project deliveries, owners, project managers, engineers, and construction experts are all experiencing negative and significant impacts. As a total industry we need to take a step back and objectively view the unique challenges inherent in our projects and consider that we need to consider a different approach to their foundational set up including the delivery method used. The alternative and collaborative delivery methodology includes Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Alliancing, and even Progressive Design Build (PDB). These methods are all focused on integrated practices that break down silos within our industry, especially between design and construction. They are focused on early contractor involvement to designing in constructability, supply chain availabilities, and increased consideration for innovation. They have an increased focus on proactive, integrated, adaptive, and agile planning systems to reconcile and balance all variables in improved ways to achieve owners' value proposition working within constraints of time and budget. This has also raised increased awareness on the importance of the more humanistic domains and related topics for work team environments including team performance, engagement, behaviors, trust and culture. Lastly and possibly more importantly, these methods also have proven themselves as a way to lower risk, stabilize schedule and navigate our increased complexity. This session will explore the new and emerging methodologies that are playing out in North America in infrastructure and dig into the key aspects and challenges to delivering them. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of how to determine when to consider these models, and how to prepare themselves for successfully implementation.

This presentation will provide a simple process for owners of water / wastewater / conveyance projects to select a Contract Model for their engineering and construction project. The presenter Brian Maksymetz has over 25 years of Project Management experience from employment with the Project Owner, the Design Consultant, and the Construction Contractor. Brian is an expert in procurement for water treatment and conveyance projects in the private and public sectors. In addition to improved risk management and more successful projects, the Right choice of contract model will provide a return on investment to the Owner for the costs of using that model in the first place. And there's nothing wrong with the old way of doing things. The presentation will explain how to optimize the traditional design-bid-build and construction management methods for more successful project outcomes. Brian's company is www.better-projects.ca.

Speaker will outline his journey from establishing a a sole proprietorship in 2006 and becoming incorporated in 2015 as Almaquin Enterprises Limited. The company is a merging of the owners technical background in water treatment and writing responses to Request for Proposals (RFPs). Will cover the following topics: number of certified operators; increasingly stringent regulations driving technology, plant classification, what operators want, what clients want, value of marketing and website, and price-to-win.

Did you know there is a simple way to save money and time while improving the design and construction of a water or wastewater facility upgrade and/or expansion? Understanding the importance and key role of operability and maintainability in the design and construction phase is crucial for the long-term success of a water or wastewater facility upgrade and/or expansion project. By including the expertise of an operation and maintenance specialist into the project team valuable experience is inputted during the planning, design and construction stages resulting in a project that has reduced whole life cycle costs, minimized risks, improved communication with stakeholders and a completed facility that is operable, maintainable, safe, and sustainable over its lifespan.