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ICOLD

Technical Committees  

A call for applications for Technical Committee Representative roles was emailed to BDS members on 10th January. If you have any queries or would like the email resending, please contact bds@ice.org.uk. The deadline for applications is 28th February 2025.

Updates 

The bulletins approved in New Delhi (Bulletin 199 to Bulletin 206) have been put in ‘preprint’ version on the website (in the Publication section). 

To download these bulletins, please go to the publication page of the ICOLD website here https://www.icold-cigb.org/GB/publications/bulletins.asp

28th ICOLD Congress and 93rd Annual Meeting - Chengdu, China, 15th to 23rd May 2025  

Chengdu in China will be hosting the 28th ICOLD Congress and 93rd Annual Meeting in May 2025. This promises to be a very interesting event, particularly bearing in mind some of the impressive dams that have and our currently being constructed in China.  More information can be found here: https://www.icold-cigb2025.com/web/index/ 

Registration for the event is now open and if you plan on attending, could you let the BDS know, so that we can collate a list of everyone going. That way we can catch up with each other whilst we are over there and arrange a get together.  

BDS Young Professionals

CPD Event 

The dates of up-and-coming YP CPD events can now be found on the BDS website here. The next event will be on the 20th February 2025

Earthworks 2025

The Earthworks Conference 2025 is being held at the University of Birmingham between the 16th and 17th September 2025. More information can be found here

31st European Working Group on Internal Erosion and 6th on Overtopping and Erosion

The 31st EWG on IE and the 6th EWG on OOE will be taking place at the University of Brno between 23rd and 28th June 2025. The deadline for abstracts is 15th February 2025. More details can be found on our Events page.  

The ‘International Handbook on Emergency Management for Flood Defences’

Internal collaboration between Rijkswaterstaat in the Netherlands, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Environment Agency, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) in Japan, and others has resulted in a new manual called the International Handbook on Emergency Management for Flood Defences, which has some useful information that is also applicable to dams. A link to the handbook can be found here.