2025 Dam Design and Technical Specifications Review

This course will be an interactive seminar that provides a well-blended mixture of lecture presentations covering various design disciplines along with several strategically designed hands-on exercises that provide interaction among participants. The exercises will be developed to include review of documents for a dam rehabilitation project to provide experience for the novice dam safety engineer with design review. This course has been developed to provide attendees with a broader background on dam design and specific experience and resources that can be used following the seminar.

Key takeaways for this course: 

• Design Package Breakdown for Review

• Hydrology Review

• Geotechnical Review

• Structural Review

• Plans/Drawings Review

• Civil 3-D Design to 2-D Plan Development

• Specification Development and Review

• Design Review Standards and Guidelines