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Design and construction of dams:

- Design and Construction of Dams, Reservoirs, and Balancing Lakes
(UNESCO - 2003)

-EOLSS UNESCO

- The role of dams in the XXI century. Achieving a sustainable development traget
(Report for ICOLD'S Commitee on Governance of dams. Hydropower & Dams Issue 3 - 2006)

Dams safety improvement and cost savings :

-Draft of ICOLD Bulletin on Cost Savings in Dams (floods, spillways and siltation)

-ICOLD studies on cost saving opportunities
(Note - 2009)

-What sort of risk analysis? For which dams?
(June 1999)

-Non structural measures are cost effective for reducing risks of most dams
(September 2002)

-Classification of reported failures
(ICOLD Bulletin 109)

-General status of reservoir and dam safety in China

-Dam construction sites accident prevention
(ICOLD Bulletin 80)

Reservoirs sedimentation :

-Sedimentation Management in hydro reservoirs
(Water India - 2004)

Spillways :

-Should we forget the traditional « design flood »?
(Hydropower & Dams Issue 2 - 2005)

- Gated spillways and other controlled release facilities, and dam safety
(ICOLD 20th Congress : Question 79 - General report)

-Optimized solutions for existing spillways
(Hydro Africa 2003)

-Analysis and low cost mitigation of the flood risk of Asian dams
(Xian symposium - November 2005)

- Efficiency, cost and utilization of various fuse devices and labyrinth weirs
( ICOLD 22 nd Congress : Question 84.)

- New approaches to flood management
(Asia 2006 - Session 9)

-Collapsible gates and labyrinth weirs for new or existing dams
(Water India V - September 2008)

-Concrete fuse plugs
(ICOLD Bulletin on Cost saving in dams. Appendix 4.3)

-Concrete fuse plugs : Data for an easy design
(Leaflet-2009)

Piano Keys weirs:

-The Piano Keys Weirs : a new cost-effective solution for spillways
(Hydropower & Dams Issue 5 - 2003)

- Design of a new economic shape of weir

-Labyrinth weirs
(ICOLD Bulletin on Cost saving in dams. Appendix 4.2)

- New labyrinth weirs triple the spillways discharge
(Leaflet - 2009)

Small and medium dams :

-Low cost methods for safety improvement of medium and small dams

-Dams less than thirty meters high
( ICOLD bulletin 109 - Summary and conclusion)

-Guidelines for small dams
(Conclusion)

Low cost technologies to improve reservoirs storage
(Hydro 2009)

Tidal Plants :

-Asia 2006 Session 4 10 2006

-Large Tidal plants

-ICOLD Question 8. Tidal plants may be 20% of future Hydropower

-An overview of tidal power potential and prospects
(Hydropower & dams - Marine Energy Supplement, 2009)

Energy storage offshore :

-The energy used worldwide may be increased fivefold and 80% renewable :
The "Emerald Lakes"

-The "Emerald Lakes"
(Hydropower and Dams : Issue 1 - 2008)

-Potential of Tidal Plants and Offshore Energy Storage in India

-Hydropower storage may be the key to sustainable energy 07.2009

Pumping Station Plants :

World Energy Needs and Offshore Potential 09.2008