Water Dams

Risk-informed dam safety management.

We specialize in transforming technical information into actionable knowledge for decision-making. We help owners, operators, and public authorities manage dam safety throughout the entire lifecycle, combining risk analysis methodologies and tools, expert knowledge, and advanced engineering.

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EXPERIENCE THAT BUILDS TRUST

Over 25 years helping manage dam safety worldwide

For more than 25 years, we have participated in dam safety projects across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, working for public agencies, hydropower companies, mining companies, multilateral development banks, and international organizations.

Our proprietary methodology and tools have enabled us to lead the application of risk analysis and risk governance to dam safety worldwide. We have worked on more than 300 dams in 30 countries, from individual studies to safety management programs for large dam portfolios.

Our experience covers the entire dam lifecycle, from preliminary studies and design to operation, rehabilitation, and decommissioning. We follow leading international standards and practices, actively contributing to the development and review of technical standards and to the advancement of the field through training, committees, and specialized technical groups.

OUR APPROACH

Specialized solutions for every need

Risk analysis is in our DNA
- We develop and apply proprietary methodologies that integrate loading conditions, observed behavior, system response, and failure modes.
- We assess consequences and the effectiveness of potential risk reduction measures.
- We incorporate medium- and long-term scenarios that account for climate change and changes in exposed elements
A comprehensive view of safety
- We go beyond checking compliance with standards and technical requirements.
- We complement deterministic analysis with assessments of uncertainties, probabilities, and downstream consequences.
- We prioritize where to focus resources.
- We evaluate the effects of proposed measures.
- We compare risk reduction strategies.
Turning knowledge into decisions
- We identify what needs to be studied, monitored, and rehabilitated.
- We prioritize investments and plan actions.
- We support risk-informed decisions with a traceable and transparent technical basis.
- We strengthen owners’ ability to make independent decisions and justify them.
Traceable Decisions and Portfolio Management
- We assess portfolios using consistent criteria.
- We prioritize investments and establish roadmaps.
- We support our clients and update models with new data and changing conditions.
- We integrate risk into monitoring, operations, and investment decisions.
Safety as an Ongoing Process
- We view safety as an ongoing process.
- We support our clients over the long term, updating models with new data and changes in operations, loading conditions, and downstream consequences.
- We integrate risk analysis into asset management, monitoring, operations, and investment planning.

Service Catalog

Three service areas, with risk analysis as the integrating element.

We organize our work into three main service areas. Risk analysis is our core specialty and connects the different disciplines involved in dam safety. This approach allows us to undertake everything from targeted risk analyses to safety reviews, specialized technical studies, and comprehensive safety management programs, tailoring each service to our clients’ needs.