Wednesday, October 20, 2010
ASCE Recognizes a Part of Their History during Annual Conference in Las Vegas
Reston, Va. —In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Hoover Dam, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will host a special symposium on the dam, its engineering and history during the society’s 140th Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Las Vegas. The program—held on October 21 and 22—will begin with a presentation on the relationship of politics and dam safety to the approval of the original Boulder Dam Canyon Project Act. Other sessions will include:
- Building Blocks of Hoover Dam: Technology, Politics, Economics
- Reclamation, the Army, and Hoover Dam During World War II
- Advances in Mass Concrete Technology – The Hoover Dam Studies
- Long-Term Properties of Hoover Dam Mass Concrete
- 75 Years of Hydraulic Investigations – Hoover Dam
- Performance of Spillway Structures Using Hoover Dam Spillways as a Benchmark
- Engineering Firsts at Hoover Dam
- Seismic Evaluation of Hoover Dam Powerplant
- Engineering and the Sculptural Program of Hoover Dam
- Megaproject Success: Hoover Dam Construction and Pre-Construction Management Ingenuity
- Construction Management of a Mega Project
- The Construction of Hoover Dam: A Case Study from a Builder’s Perspective
- Building Hoover Dam (Men, Machines, and Methods)
For complete information on the symposium and ASCE’s Annual Civil Engineering Conference, please visit: www.asceannualconference.org. Press passes are available for credentialed members of the media. For more information on a complimentary press pass, please contact Leikny Johnson at 703-295-6413 or ljohnson@asce.org.
Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 140,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America’s oldest national engineering society. For more information, visit www.asce.org.
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