Civil and Hydraulic Engineering

This work package will focus on the following themes:

• Sustainable and cost-effective methods to maintain, repair and improve the safety of existing structures (e.g. dams, intakes, tunnels, power plants and waterways).
• Improved knowledge and methods to assess the current state of hydraulic structures and their safety, which is essential to identify and prioritise repair and maintenance projects.
• Development and investigation of designs for new environmental measures to ensure positive environmental effects, minimise negative effects on operations and always maintain a high level of dam safety.

These themes will be further explored within the four topic areas of the work package, which you can soon read more about below. Some of the challenges in this area are also shared by the mining industry, which is therefore participating in this work package.