IQPC’s Hosts First Annual Bridges Conference with the Federal Highway Administration, State DOTs and More

IQPC and Construction IQ are proud to announce their Bridges 2010 Conference, which will focus on aligning available funding in today’s economy with engineering solutions to meet the needs of sustainability. The conference will take place from February 22-24 in Raleigh, NC at The Sheraton Raleigh Hotel.

“This event will provide valuable insight from structural engineers on how to allocate limited budgets for refurbishing, maintaining and building new bridges,” said Ania Krol, Program Director, IQPC.

Bridges will be keynoted by Myint Lwin, Director, Office of Budget Technology, Federal Highway Administration. Another highlighted speaker is Andrew Fremier of the SF Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. He will be speaking about the current massive deck expansion for the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge’s Self-Anchored Suspension Span. You can read more about this project on the MTC site here.

This event is expected to attract high level policy-makers from the state, regional and international level as well as industry professionals from across the spectrum.

For more information, view the brochure at www.bridgesconference.com or contact Samara Chughtai at samara.chughtai@iqpc.com or 212.885.2738.

IQPC produces more than 1,500 events annually around the world, and continues to grow. Founded in 1973, IQPC now has offices in major cities across five continents. IQPC leverages a global research base of best practices to produce a cross industry portfolio of information-sharing forums.