Education

December 9 - 10, 2025

*VIRTUAL COURSE

This two-day, intermediate-level course creates an awareness of the full-scope process involved in right of way acquisition for electrical transmission projects. The course also provides effective techniques for successful negotiations in the process and exposes right of way agents to what their role may be throughout the process. The course also exposes the participants to the idea of “resourcefulness,” so they can recognize a problem when it develops and determine a solution, or know where to go and who to ask for help in finding that solution. The course culminates in a scenario-based, live team challenge where students apply their new skills and develop critical thinking to solve a real world, electrical transmission project crisis.

Topics

• Project planning and feasibility

• Records development and management

• Title and curative matters

• Survey

• Permits

• Negotiation and strategy

• Public relations

• Construction

• Damage settlement

• Related right of way activities

December 16, 2025

*VIRTUAL COURSE

This course provides the right of way professional with an understanding of the environmental due diligence components. Participants learn to recognize when a due diligence report should be ordered, as well as how reports should be analyzed.

Topics

• Innocent Purchaser Defense

• ASTM Phase I ESA standard

• EPA’s “All Appropriate Inquiry” rule

• Educate attendees about other components of environmental due diligence

• Guidance on how to order due diligence services and establish expectations

• Illustrate how to analyze the reports and their impacts on the proposed project

December 16 - 17, 2025

*VIRTUAL COURSE

This course focuses on the consultant and leads you through:

• The Project Phases – when a specific need for a consultant is identified;
• Processes – starting with the hiring process to the closing of the project, which ends the contractual agreement between the consultant and the public agency or private industry; and

• Application of Concepts – from the consultant’s and agency’s/industry’s perspectives using case studies.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• define the project steps;

• understand the interests, similarities and differences among the consultant, public agency, and private industry interests;

• apply concepts, identify/avoid common mistakes/misunderstandings;

• describe the consultant hiring process;

• assess the quality of consultants’ deliverables; and

• conduct an audit, a project review, and close the project.

January 7, 2026

*VIRTUAL COURSE

This managerial course presents sources of, and solutions to, conflicts between public agencies.  The course is interactive, utilizing the experiences of the facilitator and participants, text material, and a progressively complex participant exercise.  The goal of the course is to provide participants with insights and tools for avoiding, resolving and managing conflicts in the public sector.

Topics

• Sources of Public Agency (PA) conflict

• Personality and behavior factors

• Primary drivers (motivators) of Public Agencies

• The role of bureaucracies

• The influence of politics

• Processes for conflict resolution

January 9, 2026

*VIRTUAL COURSE

This course familiarizes participants with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other important legislation which guides the project development process, as well as the various agencies and stakeholders involved.   Participants are also introduced to the right of way professional’s role in each phase of the project development process and the responsibilities for which he or she will be held accountable when seeing a project through to completion. For purposes of this course, right of way acquisition and management is defined broadly to include acquisition and management of real property, typically for construction projects (linear and non-linear), but also for other purposes such as environmental mitigation.

Topics

• Overview of project development and environmental process

• NEPA

• Other environmental legislation

• Comprehensive environmental permit strategies

• Review and introduction to case study exercises

• Project conceptualization

• Constraints analysis and siting

• Project planning and preliminary design

• Project decision, detailed design and ROW acquisition

• Construction

• Operations and maintenance

February 5, 2026

*VIRTUAL COURSE

This course introduces the income capitalization approach, which is a method of evaluating an investment by estimating future cash flows and taking into consideration the time value of money. This approach is presented in a concise, easy-to-understand format, and combines lecture, case studies and exercises to teach participants how to apply income capitalization in a variety of situations.

Topics

• The relationship between the Valuation Process and the Income Capitalization Approach

• The applicability and reliability of the approach

• The characteristics of Direct and Yield Capitalization

• The components of Direct Capitalization (determining gross income, estimating vacancy and credit loss, calculating effective gross income, estimating expense and estimating value)

• Capitalization Rate Development

• Determining Just Compensation

February 6, 2026

*VIRTUAL COURSE

This course presents more complex partial acquisition valuation problems and offers opportunities for the participants to understand better the possible applications of appraisal theory to specific partial acquisition appraisal situations.

Topics

• Before Acquisition Valuation

• Highest and Best Use as Assemblage with Adjoining Owner

• After Acquisition Valuation

• Benefits

• USPAP and the Uniform Act

• Larger Parcel

• Consistent Use and Interim Use

• Comparable Sales

• Zoning

• Cost to Cures

• Profits a Prendre and the Unit Rule

February 26, 2026

*VIRTUAL COURSE

This intensive course is designed to teach participants the necessary skills and knowledge to introduce and implement an asset management program within an organization. Asset management is the comprehensively planned management of a diverse portfolio of real estate for the optimum use of available assets. Participants will explore the comprehensively planned management of a diverse portfolio of real estate for the optimum use of available assets.

Topics

• Definition of asset management

• Aspects, considerations and goals of asset management

• Prerequisites of successful asset management

• Identifying need for asset management

• Establishing an asset management program

• Steps and team formation

• Implementation of asset management programs

• Strategies and computer assistance options