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MD&A were part of the Group awarded the ENR Global Best Project Award in the water/wastewater category for the ‘Emergency and Carryover Storage Project in San Diego’. The submission was made by MWH, the Designers of the whole multi-billion dollar Project and MD&A were specialist Consulting Engineers for the two RCC dams, Olivenhain and the San Vicente Dam… View More

The bids for the two main Contracts for the construction of the Dasu HEP were opened, MW–01 for the dam itself and MW–02 for the tunnels and Power… View More

A visit was made to the San Vicente Dam Raise to review the dam four years after the last RCC had been placed in the… View More

A visit was made to St John's to further discuss the construction methodology proposed by the Contractor and the lessons learned from previous RCC dams using slip-formed facing elements (e.g. Upper… View More

After a number of years on hold, the last RCC was placed in the closure dam of the Teesta Low Dam Stage IV Project in West Bengal,… View More

A visit was made to Muskrat Falls to discuss the use of the flyash from Zetes-2 and the construction methodology proposed by the Contractor for the North Dam. There was still significant ice in the lake below the Falls even at the beginning of… View More

A visit was made to Turkey to inspect the Zetes-2 Thermal Power Station to investigate their flyash as a potential material for Muskrat Falls North… View More

The Contract for the design and construction supervision of Mwache dam in Kenya was awarded to Nippon Koi. MD&A are the RCC dam specialists for the… View More

A Keynote Address 'Lessons learned from recent large RCC dams in South-East Asia’ was given to the ASIA2016 Conference in Vientiane, Laos. A visit was also made to Nam Ngiep 1 under construction (the newest dam in Laos) and Nam Ngum 1 (the oldest dam in… View More

The reservoir at Lai Chau flowed over the spillway two months after the first unit went online, a few days ahead of… View More