Organized by the Swiss Committee on Dams, the 12th ICOLD European Club Symposium was held in Interlaken from September 5 to 8, 2023.

Almost 100 participants attended a series of workshops on the 5th of September. These workshops gave the opportunity to develop various important subjects:
• "Ea...

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The Swiss Committee on Dams (SwissDams) awards a prize for outstanding Master's theses related to dams.
The prize is awarded annually on the occasion of the General Assembly of the committee (usually in spring) and goes to the author of a master's thesis written at a Swiss university (ETH, universi...

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Giovanni Lombardi

(Lugano May 28, 1926 – Monte-Carlo May 22, 2017))

After obtaining his diploma of Major in Civil Engineering at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology, Zurich in 1948, Giovanni Lombardi completed his doctoral thesis in technical sciences on the subject “Les barrages en voût...

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06.12.2021
The SwissDams "Young professionals" working group visited the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology of the ETH Zurich on the occasion of the last meeting of the group for the year 2021. The researchers from the laboratory presented four research projects as well as the phys...

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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Montsalvens dam and reservoir, Éditions de l'Hèbe SA has published the book (Il y a) de l'électricité dans l'eau.
For more information click here.

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