Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dam engineers' evidence again questioned

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: Now to the inquiry into last year's Queensland floods and today there were more ...
Nature

Concrete Dam Engineering and Deformation Analysis

Concrete dam engineering involves a multidisciplinary approach to ensure structural integrity, durability and safety. Recent advancements have focused on understanding the complex interplay between ...
Construction General on MSN

Building a mini curved hydroelectric dam with unique turbines

This video showcases a mini hydroelectric dam construction project, exploring the science and engineering behind it.
Johnson City Press

Ripshin Dam project gets Grand Award from state engineering organization

The recently completed Ripshin Dam repair and renovation project received the Grand Award from the American Council of ...
The Globe and Mail

Dam shielding Kitchener could fail, engineers find

One of Ontario's biggest dams is at risk of collapsing, according to an engineering study of the four-decade-old structure. The Conestogo dam, built in the late 1950s, holds back a wall of water more ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dam engineers in deep over report discrepancies

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: Australia's largest litigation funder says there could be $1 billion class action over the ...
Design News

Engineering Disasters: The Dam Catastrophe That Changed the Profession

Eighty-six years after America's worst civil engineering disaster, the lessons appear painfully obvious. Engineers now know that each big project has its own set of unique challenges; there's no ...
Financial Post

US Army Corps of Engineers Awards Stantec with National Dam and Levee Safety Contract Stantec will provide geotechnical services for flood damage reduction projects

EDMONTON, Alberta and NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District, has awarded global design firm Stantec with a five-year, $45 million ...
The Globe and Mail

B.C.’s Site C dam project is a disaster in the making

Of the many issues awaiting the next government of British Columbia, none is more vexing and politically fraught than the Site C dam project. On its present course, it has the potential to be the ...
Yahoo Canada Sports

Engineers modeled the disastrous flood that would follow a key dam in Ukraine being destroyed. The reality is even worse, they say.

Engineers predicted what would happen if Ukraine's Kakhovka Nova dam was breached. The dam was breached for real on Tuesday, and the reality is worse than predicted, one said. Russia and Ukraine are ...
Yahoo

Engineers reduce risk of dam bursting near Russian-held Ukraine nuclear plant -TASS

(Reuters) - Engineers have reduced the risk of a dam bursting and damaging a large Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine, a senior Russian official was quoted as saying by TASS ...