Dams and related features play a critical role in providing water supply, hydropower, flood control, recreation, and other benefits. Given their importance, we have a dedicated team of over 100 experts focused exclusively on dam, levee, and water resource projects throughout the United States. We provide a continuum of services during planning, assessment, design and construction of all types of dams and related structures including earthen, concrete, and roller compacted concrete.
Schnabel’s dam engineering solutions include:
New and Existing Dams and Levees
- Design and safety assessments of dams, spillways, tunnels, penstocks, conduits
- PFMA and risk-informed decision making
- Dam removal and replacement
- Emergency remediation
- Geotechnical, geostructural and geophysical investigations
- Instrumentation and monitoring programs
- Seismic hazard and response analysis
- Slope and shoreline stabilization
- Hydrology and hydraulics
- CFD modeling of hydraulic structures
- Spillway expansion design
Emergency Action Planning
- 2D, 3D, and hybrid hydraulic modeling
- Dam breach scenario development and inundation mapping
- Downstream routing and inundation mapping
- Emergency action plans and training workshops
- Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling
Construction Support Services
- Bid and procurement support
- Construction inspection and QA/QC testing
- Resident engineering
