Day 1:
Monday 4/14/25
12:00 - 1:00PM
Participant Check-In
1:00 - 3:00PM
Welcome and General Session:
1) Corpus Christi Welcome
2) TxDOT Project Development
3) TxDOT Project Delivery and Safety
4) Bridge Division Welcome
5) Design Division Welcome
3:00 - 3:30PM
Break
3:30 - 5:00PM
BRG Breakout Session 1: Bridge Project Spotlight - Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge
1) Project Overview
2) Design Highlights
3) Construction Highlights
DES Breakout Session 1: Digital Plan Development
1) Mobile Mapping
2) Digital Delivery Update
DES Breakout Session 2: Safety in Design Part I
1) Intersection Control Evaluation (ICE) - (PDS - RAID)
2) Access Control:
2.1) Safety and Operations,
2.2) What, Where and When to show COA lines,
2.3) Management Best Practices
5:00 - 7:00PM
Welcome Reception (Light Snacks and Cash Bar)
Day 2:
Tuesday 4/15/25
7:30 - 8:30AM
Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00AM
BRG Breakout Session 1: Geotech
1) Slope Stability For New Construction, Phased Construction, and Rehabilitation
2) LRFD For Foundation Design
3) Creating Useful Scour Documentation
BRG Breakout Session 2: Informed Bridge Management
1) Data Driven Asset Management Decisions
2) District Success via BMIP
DES Breakout Session 1 - Safety in Design Part II
1) Every Project is a Safety Project
2) Safer by Design
3) Digital Delivery Item of focus on Safety
10:00 - 10:30AM
Break
10:30 - 12:00PM
BRG Breakout Session 1: Bridge Construction & Maintenance
1) Bridge Deck Construction In Texas
2) Specification Requirements for Preserving Steel Bridges
3) District Bridge Crews - Panel Discussion with Maintenance Supervisors
BRG Breakout Session 2: Bridge Design
1) Precast Alternates - Using the new standards, providing alternate designs in the plan set, and using the wide flange girders
2) Design of Long Span bridges using spliced girder
3) Design of Long Span briges using steel
DES Breakout Session: H&H Part I Community of Practice
12:00 - 1:30PM
Lunch
1:30 - 3:00PM
BRG Breakout Session 1: Bridge Inspection
1) Life after NBI Updates and SNBI Implementation
2) Observations and Trends in SNBI Items and Codings
3) District Bridge Inspection Practices (Panel Discussion)
BRG Breakout Session 2: Bridge Design
1) Research Update - Precast Columns, Nextgen Bridge Decks
2) Lubbock ABC Project Spotlight - Rural Site
3) Lubbock ABC project Spotlight - Urban site
DES Breakout Session: Delivering Projects for Letting Part I
1) Letting Low Risk Projects - When to use a Construction Management Plan (CMP) SOP
2) Project Readiness - Strategic Projects, FPP, Rack and Stack Committee, District
3:00 - 3:30PM
Break
3:30 - 5:00PM
BRG Breakout Session: Bridges Owned by Local Governments
1) Tracking and Reporting Bridges Owned by a Local Government
2) Off-System Bridge Maintenance
3) Agreements with Local Governments
DES Breakout Session 1: FHWA Delegation
Delegation/FHWA topics - (District, PDS and FHWA). Major/Other Projects, IAJRs, Design Exceptions.
DES Breakout Session 2: Delivering Projects for Letting Part II
Plan Quality Items - Joint session with DDS, FPP, District, BRG
Day 3:
Wednesday 4/16/25
7:30AM
Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00AM
BRG Breakout Session 1: Programmatic Approach to Bridge Preservation
1) Preserving Signature Bridges in Texas
2) Texas' Truss Inventory
3) Panel Discussion on District Bridge Preservation Priorities
DES Breakout Session 1 - H&H Part II Streams and Structures
1) Fluvial Geomorphology
2) H&H and Bridges - PBLR, Scour, bridge deck drainage. (BRG, DES, District)
DES Breakout Session 2 - Using Category 10 Funding
1) ADA Design Best practice - DDS-LDA, District
2) ADA and Green Ribbon Funding
10:00 - 10:30AM
Break
10:30 - 12:00PM
General Session:
Digital Delivery: Bridge and Roadway
