Dam Engineering
Dams are complex structures and usually require a multi-discipline approach to adequately address design, construction, maintenance, emergency action measures and other safety inspection issues. At KCI Technologies, our dam engineering professional team includes geotechnical, structural, water resources engineers and natural resource managers. KCI provides the full range of dam engineering services including dam design and remediation, instrumentation and construction monitoring, safety inspections and forensics. We provide our clients value-engineered projects and high quality service that they have come to recognize and expect. In addition, KCI has commercial diving-certified professional engineers on staff. KCI’s underwater inspection team offers clients unique and comprehensive engineering and inspection services for subsurface facilities. KCI’s dam engineering team is familiar with Federal and State design and safety requirements for all classes of dams.
Representative Dams
- Earthen/rockfill
- Concrete
- High hazard
- Low hazard
- Reservoirs
- Stormwater management
- Recreational
- Flood control
- Levees
Geotechnical Engineering
- Feasibility studies
- Site assessment
- Subsurface explorations & in-situ testing
- Earthen dam design
- Slope stability
- Seepage analysis
- Settlement analysis
- Dam safety evaluation
- Downstream-flood hazard assessment
- Geo-structures
- Shallow and deep foundation design
- Shoring/excavation support design
- Ground improvement
- Geosynthetic applications
- Construction monitoring
- Seismic hazard analyses & mitigation
- Seismic design criteria
Water Resources
- Hydrologic analysis
- Reservoir hydraulics
- Dam breach analysis
- Danger reach studies
- Emergency action plans
- Scour evaluations
- Stormwater management
Structural Engineering
- Access structure design/rating analysis
- Dam design/stability analysis
- Underwater inspections/reports
- Structural analysis
- Retaining wall design
- Inspection of outlet structures and access facilities
- Hydrographic surveying
- As-built field verification of underwater construction
- Underwater testing and sampling
- Underwater video and photographic documentation and reporting
Natural Resource Management
- Fish passage
- Permitting
- Avoidance and minimization
- Dam removal/modification
- Sediment analysis
- Geofluvial assessments
- Aquatic resource impact analysis
- Ecological restoration/mitigation
Forensic Engineering
- Post failure analysis
- Remedial/mitigation design
- Barbados Farmers Dam and Impoundment
- Columbia Gateway Stormwater Management Pond Dam
- Lake Elkhorn Dam
- Red Clover Lane Dam Inspection and Slope Stability Evaluation
- Shipley’s Choice Stormwater Management Pond and Dam
- St. Mary’s River State Park Earth Embankment Dam
- Waterford Dam Spillway Failure and Rehabilitation
- Wilde Lake Dam
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