Embracing a risk-based approach to dam management

  • David Appleyard
  • Vol. 28 - Issue 4, 2021

New tools are offering dam and embankment owners the opportunity to reveal more detailed and accurate insights into their civil structures. This article, based on interviews with leading dam safety specialists, explores how better decision-making on operational and capital improvement investments can be supported with new technologies, and demonstrates where adoption of these approaches is accelerating as they become a key tool for improvinge dam safety. Freelance writer David Appleyard reports.

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