Dam safety requires more and more attention with an ageing population of dams in a modern society with increased vulnerability and more stringent safety standards and ongoing climate changes.  

Good dam safety must be founded on a legal and administrative framework of laws and regulations with due regard to international good practice. Maintaining safety requires not only a sound basic design but also regular safety evaluations and contingency planning. This calls for a broad knowledge of dam engineering, understanding of the hydraulic and hydrological processes and the interaction between humans and technical systems; all structured with adequate methods of safety analysis and risk management such as event and fault tree analysis and different variants of FMECA.

We have worked continuously with development of national laws, regulations, and guidelines for dam safety and performed a multitude of safety studies of high and low dams and spillways in countries within the EU since the early nineties.