Best Practices in Dam and Levee Safety Risk Analysis

July 10, 2024 - July 18, 2024

Description

Target Audience

The target audience for this training is engineers, scientists, and regulators interested in better understanding and preparing to participate in and/or facilitate dam and levee safety risk assessments.  

Learning Objectives:  

The training includes instruction to enable participants to:

• Create potential failure mode descriptions and event trees, and use them to develop risk estimates.
• Describe the hazards that affect dams and levees and apply them to risk analysis.
• Identify relevant case histories and foundational research studies.
• Apply principles of theory of probability and statistics to quantify, combine and portray risk estimates.
• Identify essential elements of life loss consequence estimates.
• Build the case for risk estimates.
• Explain governance and risk guidelines.
• Become familiar with other disciplines and their input to risk estimates.

36 PDHs

Format:

All Sessions, Virtual and In Person are required for course completion 

Virtual- March 12-14, 2025

In Person- March 19-21, 2025

CSU Spur Denver, CO - 4777 National Western Dr, Denver, CO 80216

Hotels in the area are around 5 to 25 minutes away. Due to the area being more industrial, we recommend driving or taking an Uber to the location. Parking details are available using this link. 

Time

July 10-12: Virtual | July 16-18: Denver, Colorado

Plaza Building -  Auraria Campus

955 Lawrence Way

Denver, Colorado Area 

Location

Virtual and In Person (Denver,CO)