Tracey Williamson

ICOLD technical tours

The ICOLD programme kicked off with an opportunity to attend a technical tour on Sunday, 15 May, 2016. There was also an opportunity to attend these tours again on 19 May 2016, discussed in the technical tours paper.

Technical committee meetings

ICOLD presently has 26 technical committees. The committees met on 16 and 17 May 2016 and the Regional Club Meeting was held on the evening of 17 May 2016.

Meeting report: ICOLD Annual Meeting and Congress 2015, Stavanger

The ICOLD Annual Meeting and Congress were held in Stavanger, in the southwest of Norway. Delegates from the BDS attended the various technical committee meetings, the general assembly, technical p...

Technical visit: ICOLD 2013, Seattle, USA: technical tour TT4 Cushman Hydro Project

This paper summarises the technical tour undertaken by a member of the British Dam Society in the international group of International Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD) 2013 attendees. The tour group travelled to the Cushman Hydro Project dams to the west of Seattle, where the dams are located in the Olympic National Park.

Technical visit: ICOLD 2011, Lucerne: study tour T3 to Lucendro and Göscheneralp dams

This article summarises the technical tour undertaken by a group attending ICOLD 2011, including members of the BDS, Andy Hughes and Tracey Williamson. The tour group travelled through the Reuss Valley in the south of Switzerland up to the Gotthard Pass with a visit to the 69 m high Lucendro buttress dam, completed just after Word War II. The buttresses have been laterally reinforced by massive struts to increase the stability of the structure. This was followed by a visit to the 155 m high Goscheneralp dam, completed in 1962, which consists of a central impervious core with rockfill shoulders.