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TENNESSEE PUBLIC WORKS INSTITUTE By Kenny Wiggins
Maintenance Technologies Class

The 2023 Maintenance Technologies Pavement Maintenance, Surveying, Jenkins, City of Knoxville; Shane
Class of the Tennessee Public Works Concrete Maintenance, Right-of-Way Snoderly, City of Alcoa; Doug Tarwater,
Institute (TPWI) was held October 3-6 at Maintenance, and Heavy Equipment City of Sevierville; Mark Woods, Applied
the DoubleTree Hotel in Murfreesboro, Operations & Safety. Pavement Technology; Chipper Wyatt,
Tennessee. Twenty-six students Two field exercises were included in City of Alcoa; and Kenny Wiggins, UT-
attended the class, representing eight the class: Field Surveying and Heavy MTAS.
municipalities and the Metropolitan Equipment Operation. Special thanks The next TPWI class, Public Works
Knoxville Airport Authority. go to the Murfreesboro Public Works Supervision, is set for December 5-8 but
Class modules included: Work Department for providing the site and has already filled its limit of attendees.
Zone Safety, Safe Trenching & equipment for the Heavy Equipment The Construction Inspection class is
Excavation, Confined Space Entry, exercise. February 27-March 1, 2024 and is still
Basic Math, Engineering Plans Reading, Class instructors included Scott open for registration.

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