David Easton, the author of ‘A Good Dam Book’. Photo: Submitted FROM a ten-year-old boy who made his own sluice gates in the farm stream to an international engineer who has tendered for and been part ...

The Three Gorges Dam was built on the Yangtze River and is known as the most powerful dam by hydroelectric capacity to date.

An FIU Institute of Environment professor has published a book addressing concerns surrounding the operation and filling of the largest dam in Africa. Assefa Melesse, a professor of water resources ...

Concrete dam engineering involves a multidisciplinary approach to ensure structural integrity, durability and safety. Recent advancements have focused on understanding the complex interplay between ...

The small headline of the Engineering News article shown here belies the gravity of the disaster: the deadliest dam failure in U.S. history. The South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania was a 72-ft-tall, 931-ft ...

Researchers are using green engineering to develop a low-cost dam that aims to prevent flooding, generate electricity, and help end food and water shortages. Researchers in the Philippines are using ...

Without the massive wall of concrete called Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nev., wouldn’t exist. The town sprouted during the Great Depression to house thousands of workers, mainly men, who had headed west ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. — Nearly a century after its construction began, the Dreher Shoals Dam — better known as the Lake Murray Dam — has been officially recognized as a National Historic Civil Engineering ...