Course Objectives Important aspects of dam safety are the design and construction of the dam, levee and appurtenant structures. The basis for dam and levee safety is established in the development of the detailed design drawings and project specifications, and implemented in construction of the project. Technical reviewers have the important role of checking to verify if the design meets the requirements and criteria that have been developed b...

This 2-day course explores principles developed over the last twenty years in the “social behavior” arena. The same concepts that effect positive social engineering are duplicated in designing inhabited spaces to cause people to do what you want them to do. Students will learn to design “from the curb inward” and incorporate overlapping threat prevention principles. We also look at crime and terrorist activity and their...

Safe-room, panic rooms, evacuation shelters, tornado cellars and collective shelters all provide protection from man-made or natural threats, for both short and long periods of time. They usually serves as a place to repair to during emergency situations; a fall back position in case of emergencies, if you will. Effective design components; i.e., air requirements and waste management, capacity limits, use of electronic media and other technolo...

COURSE OBJECTIVES This seminar provides comprehensive instruction in inspection and evaluation techniques for dams. The principles, concepts and procedures taught will be readily adaptable to any organization conducting dam inspections and evaluating their compliance with current design standards. The target audience is state and federal dam owners/regulators, local and private dam owners/operators, consulting engineers and personnel responsib...