USSD honors an individual whose lifetime of dedication and achievement has contributed significantly to the dam engineering profession.
Deadline to submit a nomination for the Lifetime Achievement Award is March 30, 2021
David Kleiner, Stantec
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the significant contributions made to the dam community and to society through the construction, remediation, or removal of a dam or water resources structure. The award honors an individual or team of professionals who meet the challenges of the nation's aging infrastructure in an era of limited financial resources and increasing environmental awareness.
The deadline to submit nominations for the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award is MARCH 30, 2021
New Calaveras Dam
Owner: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Design Consultant: AECOM
Construction Management Consultant: Black and Veatch
Contractor (Joint Venture): Dragados USA, Inc. / Flatiron West, Inc. / Sukut Construction, Inc.
To celebrate the exceptional industry-wide contributions of Young Professionals, this award annually recognizes an individual age 35 or under who, through both their career and community involvement, exemplify USSD’s four mission goals: advocate, educate, collaborate and cultivate.
The deadline to submit nominations for the 2021 Exceptional YP of the Year Award is March 30, 2021.
Rachael Bisnett, Senior Associate, Stantec
The outgoing USSD President selects this bi-annual award to recognize a member who has provided exceptional service to USSD.
Dr. Debora Miller
This annual award recognizes the outstanding paper presented during each USSD Conference.
Lelio Mejia, Geosyntec Consultants, and Ethan Dawson, AECOM — Evaluation of Earthquake-Induced Cracking of Embankment Dams
This annual award recognizes the outstanding paper presented by a Young Professional during each USSD Conference.
Nicholas Paull, Ross W. Boulanger and Jason T. Dejong, University of California, Davis — Seismic Deformation of Different Size Embankments on a Spatially Variable Liquefable Deposit
This annual award recognizes the outstanding poster presentation during each USSD Conference.
Anurag Singhal, Kevin Gerst and Kenwarjit S. Dosanjh, HDR — Effects of Gate-Wall Interaction on Spillway Tainter Gates
Dams are identified in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan as a Critical Infrastructure. Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21) notes, “Critical infrastructure owners and operators are uniquely positioned to manage risks to their individual operations and assets, and to determine effective strategies to make them more secure and resilient.” Individual efforts to manage risk are enhanced by a collaborative public-private partnership that operates as a unified national effort, as opposed to a hierarchical, command-and-control structure.
Organizations, specific projects, and individuals have taken the call to lead the dam industry in establishing public safety and security standards & guidelines, enhancing public safety and security and public safety controls, providing education and raising awareness, and staying situationally aware of changing and evolving threats and increased public safety risks. The physical, personnel, information, and cyber components of a public safety and security practice are challenging enough for traditional buildings and structures, but their application to dams presents a unique ability that requires professional artistry that shouldn’t go without recognition.
It is for this purpose that this recognition was established by the Committee on Public Safety, Security and Emergency Management for Dams.
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT NOMINATION FOR THE 2020 PUBLIC SAFETY, SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR DAMS RECOGNITION IS
MARCH 30, 2021
To submit a nomination, please click on the Public Safety and Security for Dams Recognition link to the left.
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