Sep 2024: YPs in International Water Power & Dam Construction magazine

The Young Professionals (YPs) of the Swiss Committee on Dams are featured in the Sep 2024 issue of International Water Power & Dam Construction magazine!
As we tackle challenges like aging infrastructure and a shortage of expe...

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Sep 2024: 1st digital meeting of the YP committees in large dams groups within the “DACH” region

The first digital meeting of the Young Professional committees on large dams (COLD) groups within the "DACH" region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) took place.
We got to hear about the hot topics in t...

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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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