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Red Book on Qualifications-Based Selection
Does quality or low bid control your agency's decisions when contracting for engineering and architectural consultants? Increasingly, quality is the determining factor. But how do you determine which consultant has the best quality? APWA's Red Book, a widely used publication for more than 30 years, has been updated for 2022. This publication teaches readers how to conduct interviews, evaluate candidates, and formulate and manage contracts for professional services to ensure you’re making the best selection for your agency.
The APWA Reporter
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Project Delivery Systems
This easy-to-read guide gives an overview of commonly used project delivery systems, highlighting the risks and benefits inherent in each. The book is appropriate as a primer for public sector professionals and as a guide to familiarize elected officials and nontechnical staff with the strengths, weaknesses, and applicability of delivery systems. The second edition expands upon these concepts and adds a discussion of leadership and how leaders can best usher a project to completion.
Newsletter
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After Welfare
Do contemporary welfare policies reflect the realities of the economy and the needs of those in need of public assistance, or are they based on outdated and idealized notions of work and family life? Are we are moving from a "war on poverty" to a "war against the poor?" In this critique of American social welfare policy, Sanford F. Schram explores the cultural anxieties over the putatively deteriorating "American work ethic," and the class, race, sexual and gender biases at the root of current policy and debates. Schram goes beyond analyzing the current state of affairs to offer a progressive alternative he calls "radical incrementalism," whereby activists would recreate a social safety net ...
Annual Report
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Stepping Out of the Shadows
This text explores the place of women from the perspective of race, class and gender. It disscusses the lives of women in antebellum Alabama and the roles of both black and white women as missionaries during Reconstruction, as reformers and suffrage leaders and as members of the state legislature.
Taking it to the Streets
This publication includes a list of frequently asked questions (submitted by public works directors, traffic engineers, and other transportation providers) paired with short, easy-to-understand answers. This resource is especially valuable to non-traffic engineering personnel who are responsible for responding to requests from the community and serving as the first line of information to the public.
