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From Aging Infrastructure to Extreme Rainfall: The Growing Importance of Dam Structural Engineering

Dams have been integral to human civilization for centuries, playing critical roles in water storage, flood control, and hydropower generation. However, with the increasing frequency of dam failures...

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Civil Engineering News Recap of September 2024

You can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of August 2024. Namely, these were: 1) A M...

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Dam Burst in Poland Unleashes Destructive Floodwaters

On September 15, the town of Stronie Śląskie in Poland was devastated by a dam burst, flooding the area with torrents of muddy water. Triggered by heavy rainfall from Storm Boris, the dam on the Mora...

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The Engineering Marvel of Hoover Dam: Shaping the Southwest

In the early 20th century, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation embarked on a monumental engineering project—constructing the Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border. Completed in 1935, this massive concre...

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Dam Collapse in Sudan: Catastrophic Flooding Leaves 30 Dead, 150 Missing

A tragic incident has unfolded in Arbaat, Sudan, on August 27th, where the collapse of a dam has led to the deaths of at least 30 people, with over 150 still missing. This disaster has had a devastat...

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Largest Dam Safety Project in USACE History. Tackling the problem of ageing dams.

At the end of 2023, contractors from ten construction and engineering firms gathered at the Garrison Dam in North Dakota for an industry day hosted by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). This eve...

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60-foot crack appears on rural Utah Panguitch Lake Dam

A 60-foot-wide and 2 to 5-foot-tall crack was identified at rural Utah’s Panguitch Lake Dam, on the evening of Monday, April 8, 2024, which caused safety concerns about the nearby town’s 1,800 reside...

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Largest dam removal in US history reaches important milestone

The largest dam removal in the history of the United States is currently taking place on the Klamath River, which flows through Oregon and northern California. The Klamath River has historically been...

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$4.7 billion contract awarded for the construction of Neom’s artificial lake

The contract for the construction of a $4.7 billion artificial lake, part of Saudi Arabia’s Neom project, was recently signed. Furthermore, the 2.8 km long lake is going to be formed by three new dam...

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Best Project Specialty Construction: Martin Marietta Texas Quarry Highwall Stabilization

This innovative project, by GeoStabilization International, required stabilizing two areas of a quarry that were experiencing frequent rockfalls and that posed a risk to critical infrastructure under...

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