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About the URI / NHI Regional Training Program

Introduction:
The mission of the National Highway Institute (NHI) is to provide proactive leadership, expertise, resources, and information to improve the quality of the U.S. highway system in order to enhance economic growth, quality of life, and the environment. The NHI develops and delivers training and education in cooperation with its partners to sustain and expand the transportation community's professional capacity in technologies and strategies thereby accelerating the implementation of the state-of-the-art and continuing to advance the state-of-the-practice.

Aside from formal NHI short courses where CEU's are issued, URITC does offer a limited number of short courses which are not part of the NHI catalog and do not carry CEU credit. Please review course details carefully before signing up.

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CURRENT OFFERINGS at URITC

Materials Control and Acceptance - Quality Assurance
Category: **None / Other
11/18/2008 - 11/19/2008
Location: W. Alton Jones Conference Center, 401 Victory Highway (Rt. 102), West Greenwich, RI
134042-URITC0

This course was developed in partnership with the Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council (TCCC). It provides participants with an understanding of the basic elements of a statistically based quality assurance program. The course begins with an introduction to quality management and quality assurance. Through lectures, discussion, and workshops, participants learn techniques for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data. Using the techniques taught in the course, participants assess the strengths, weaknesses, and risks of process control and acceptance plans. The course concludes with steps for successful implementation of quality specifications. To accommodate varying needs, this course is available in a 4.5-day (FHWA-NHI-134042) or a 2-day (FHWA-NHI-134042A) format. The 4.5-day course sessions include: Introduction, Sampling Theory, Organization of Data, Analysis of Data, The Normal Distribution, Sources of Variability, Process Control, Acceptance Plans and Risks, Percent within Limits Acceptance Plans, Implementation and Summary.




Inspection of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls and Reinforced Soil Slopes
Category: Geotechnical
9/22/2008 - 9/24/2008
Location: W. Alton Jones Conference Center, 401 Victory Highway (Rt. 102), West Greenwich, RI
132080-URITC0

This course is part of a series to develop a training and qualification/certification program for geotechnical field inspectors.Topics addressed in the course include the types and durability of mechanically stabilized earth walls (MSEWs) and reinforced soil slopes (RSS); construction methods and sequences; alignment control; methods of fill and compaction control; plans, specifications, and the geotechnical report; shop drawings; and safety. A 2-hour qualification exam is administered at the end of the course. The host agency/Local Coordinator is requested to provide about 50lbs of dry sand (1/2 bag of play sand from a home improvement store, or concrete sand) for use in the demonstrations. About 25lbs needs to be dry and the other half moist.




Low-Cost Safety Improvements Workshop
Category: Highway Safety
6/16/2008 - 6/16/2008
Location: W. Alton Jones Conference Center, 401 Victory Highway (Rt. 102), West Greenwich, RI
380076-URITC0

This course provides a comprehensive presentation of low-cost, ready-to-use improvements that enhance the safety of highways. The course covers a synthesis of countermeasures and their associated crash reduction factors as identified in the "AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan -- NCHRP 500 Guidebooks." Countermeasures for specific areas of highway safety, including roadside hazards; signing, markings, and lighting; traffic control devices; intersections; traffic signals; and railroad grade crossings are discussed. The course also introduces recent low-cost safety improvements that have been developed by States and and local engineers. Through exercises, participants learn how to analyze highway safety situations and apply appropriate countermeasures to those situations.




Managing Highway Contract Claims: Analysis and Avoidance
Category: **None / Other
5/19/2008 - 5/21/2008
Location: W. Alton Jones Conference Center, 401 Victory Highway (Rt. 102), West Greenwich, RI
134037-URITC0

This course is an updated version of a previously offered 3-day course on the subject of claims avoidance, claims handling, and preparation of legal actions by both the State and the individuals involved. The course is structured such that emphasis can be give to scheduling (using CPM) or to documentation and preparation of legal actions caused by claims. This option should be stated when requesting the course. The course manual and classroom instruction addresses the following areas: 1. Philosophy/concept of construction contracting, changes and claims competitive bidding/reliance on plans, and specifications why claims have increased 2. Construction contracts in laymen’s language basic contract principles significant contract clauses changes, differing site conditions, liquidated damages, suspension of work, termination, inspection, acceptance indemnification clauses 3. Strengths and weaknesses of State highway contracts 4. Preparing contract documents 5. Contract Administration directed and constructive changes procedures (Notice, equitable adjustment/force account,timeliness scheduling cost evaluations 6. Delay claims/inefficiency/damages exculpatory language, excusable and inexcusable delays acceleration, disruptions, interferences, performing delay analysis, damage calculations (mitigation) 7. Documentation and record keeping bid documents, periodic reports, schedules, internal and external correspondence, photographs; use as evidence 8. Managing claims identification, procedures, preparation/claim defense plan strategy, claim presentation 9. Negotiation timing, strategy, team approach (Workshop) 10. Design consultant liability 11. Disputes resolution litigation, arbitration, administrative procedures, alternate disputes resolution. 12. How to prepare for trial/arbitration depositions, trial, preparation of exhibits/consultants, working with attorneys.

Road Safety Audits/Assessment
Category: Highway Safety
3/26/2008 - 3/27/2008
Location: W. Alton Jones Conference Center, 401 Victory Highway, West Greenwich, RI
380069-URITC0

Performing effective road safety audits (RSAs) improves safety and demonstrates to the public an agency's dedication to crash reduction. This course provides practical information on how to conduct a road safety audit, location selection, building independent, multi-disciplinary teams and the steps to successful RSAs. Discussions on costs, time, liability and benefits, focus on the common myths and concerns surrounding RSAs. Participants learn how to improve transportation safety by applying a new proactive approach to RSAs. This approach includes examination of a future or existing roadway by an independent, qualified audit team. The course includes hands-on application of the training materials, which include information on the history and definition of RSAs, the importance of safety, the stages of a road safety audit, how to conduct a road safety audit, easy-to-use-checklists, and legal considerations. A copy of "FHWA Road Safety Audit Guidelines" is provided.




LRFD for Highway Bridge Substructures and Earth Retaining Structures
Category: Structures
3/4/2008 - 3/7/2008
Location: W. Alton Jones Conference Center, 401 Victory Highway, West Greenwich, RI
130082-URITC0

This new course expands the suite of FHWA services to assist State and local governments in a successful implementation of load and resistance factor design (LRFD). The course promotes the philosophy of the LRFD design platform and establishes the motivation for LRFD as the reassurance that safe design practices are being applied where needed. For structural applications, the curriculum follows the AASHTO "LRFD Bridge Design Specifications," 3rd Edition, 2004 (AASHTO LRFD). However for geotechnical applications, the curriculum follows recent development work on AASHTO LRFD Section 10, Foundations, including the approved 2006 interim specifications. This course is a combination of instructor-led discussions and workshop exercises. It includes LRFD theory applied to design examples and illustrates step-by-step LRFD design procedures through a series of detailed process flowcharts. The training includes the extensive use of student exercises and example problems to demonstrate overall design, detailing, and construction principles addressed in the reference materials, and provides hands-on experience in the AASHTO LRFD design and detailing of bridge abutment and pier elements, deep and shallow foundation design, and earth retaining structures. Exercise and example problems are based on components of overall comprehensive bridge design examples using AASHTO LRFD and provide comparisons between ASD, LFD, and LRFD design methods where meaningful. The curriculum materials are comprised of a comprehensive reference manual, FHWA Publication No. FHWA NHI 05-094, lecture and workshop exercises intended to promote or enhance a working knowledge of the AASHTO LRFD specification, and a participant workbook for lecture notes and exercises. The curriculum material contains the following major topics: 1. Loads, load distribution, and load combinations 2. Principles of limit state designs 3. Geotechnical spread footing design (soil and rock) 4. Driven pile and drilled shaft design (soil and rock) 5. Substructure design and detailing for a cantilever abutment and hammerhead pier 6. Mechanically stabilized earth walls 7. Precast modular walls 8. Ground anchor wall design




LRFD for Highway Bridge Superstructures - Steel
Category: Structures
2/12/2008 - 2/14/2008
Location: W. Alton Jones Conference Center, 401 Victory Highway, West Greenwich, RI
130081-URITC1

This new course expands the suite of FHWA services to assist State and local governments in a successful implementation of load and resistance factor design (LRFD). The course promotes the philosophy of the LRFD design platform and establishes the motivation for LRFD as the reassurance that safe design practices are being applied where needed. For structural applications, the curriculum follows the AASHTO "LRFD Bridge Design Specifications," 3rd Edition, 2004 (AASHTO LRFD), including the approved 2005 and 2006 Interims. This course is a combination of instructor-led discussions and workshop exercises. It includes LRFD theory applied to design examples and illustrates step-by-step LRFD design procedures. The training includes the extensive use of student exercises and example problems to demonstrate overall design, detailing, and construction principles addressed in the reference materials, and provides hands-on experience in the AASHTO LRFD design and detailing of steel superstructures. Exercise and example problems are based on components of overall comprehensive bridge design examples using AASHTO LRFD and provide comparisons between ASD, LFD, and LRFD design methods where meaningful. The curriculum materials are comprised of a comprehensive design manual, FHWA Publication No. FHWA NHI 06-001, lecture and workshop exercises intended to promote or enhance a working knowledge of the AASHTO LRFD specification, and a participant workbook for lecture notes and exercises. The curriculum material contains the following major topics: 1. General superstructure design considerations 2. Preliminary design concepts for steel superstructures 3. Steel I-girder design (including miscellaneous steel detail design) 4. Bearing design




LRFD for Highway Bridge Superstructures - Concrete
Category: Structures
11/28/2007 - 11/30/2007
Location: W. Alton Jones Conference Center, 401 Victory Highway, West Greenwich, RI
130081-URITC0

This new course expands the suite of FHWA services to assist State and local governments in a successful implementation of load and resistance factor design (LRFD). The course promotes the philosophy of the LRFD design platform and establishes the motivation for LRFD as the reassurance that safe design practices are being applied where needed. For structural applications, the curriculum follows the AASHTO "LRFD Bridge Design Specifications," 3rd Edition, 2004 (AASHTO LRFD), including the approved 2005 and 2006 Interims. This course is a combination of instructor-led discussions and workshop exercises. It includes LRFD theory applied to design examples and illustrates step-by-step LRFD design procedures. The training includes the extensive use of student exercises and example problems to demonstrate overall design, detailing, and construction principles addressed in the reference materials, and provides hands-on experience in the AASHTO LRFD design and detailing of concrete superstructures. Exercise and example problems are based on components of overall comprehensive bridge design examples using AASHTO LRFD and provide comparisons between ASD, LFD, and LRFD design methods where meaningful. The curriculum materials are comprised of a comprehensive design manual, FHWA Publication No. FHWA NHI 06-001, lecture and workshop exercises intended to promote or enhance a working knowledge of the AASHTO LRFD specification, and a participant workbook for lecture notes and exercises. The curriculum material contains the following major topics: 1. General superstructure design considerations 2. Preliminary design concepts for prestressed concrete superstructures 3. Pretensioned concrete I-girder design 4. Continuous pretensioned concrete I-girder design 5. Staged construction of prestressed concrete girder bridges 6. Bearing design







Frequently Asked Questions
I've heard that URITC is offering NHI training courses. How can I find out more?
Yes, URITC is offering a limited number of NHI training sessions.
You may find NHI/URITC session information and sign up online here.
I'm having trouble signing up for a course. Who can help me?
For general questions regarding courses, including course descriptions, cancellations, directions etc. please call Jeff Cathcart at (401) 874-9405.
Can I get CEU's for taking a URITC / NHI course?
In most cases, the answer is "Yes." If a course offers CEU's, this information is displayed in the course description online.

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