Dam Design, Plans, and 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.

Learning objectives attendees will receive from this course:

• Design Package Breakdown for Review
• Hydrology Review
• Geotechnical Review
• Plans/Drawings Review
• Civil 3-D design to 2-D plan development
• Specification development and review
• Design Review Standards and Guidelines