Experience of CDA Young Professionals at Training Workshop in Ethiopia - Webinar
NOVEMBER 20 | 11:00AM - 12:00PM CST | ONLINE - ZOOM WEBINAR
Grace Gitzel (KGS Group) and Scott Riege (Klohn Crippen Berger) will describe their experience attending 3 days of dam safety training in March 2025 at Koysha Hydroelectric Project in Ethiopia. This opportunity arose from CDA’s collaboration with NELSAP and ENTRO under the Nile Basin Initiative. Young professionals from ten Nile Basin countries, Canada, Slovenia and the USA participated in the training, and the expert instructors who shared their knowledge included Pierre Choquet (RST) and Dami Adedapo (KGS Group) from Canada. Similar training events are planned for the future.
This webinar will be engaging for all members of the dam community – young or otherwise, from Canada or elsewhere - who have an interest in dam safety capacity building, international experience, and RCC dams.
Webinar Fees:
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Non-Member:
No Fees
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Presenters:
Grace Gitzel, P.Eng.
KGS Group
Ms. Gitzel graduated with a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 2020. She has five years of experience in the geotechnical engineering field at KGS Group and has been involved in a variety of dam safety projects. Her geotechnical experience includes participation in dam safety reviews, Failure Modes and Effects Analyses workshops, geotechnical design and modelling, site investigations, instrumentation installation, and
construction inspection. Ms. Gitzel has worked on international projects including a condition assessment of three hydropower plants in Nigeria and a dam safety review of two hydropower
plants in Uganda.
Scott Riege, P.Eng.
Klohn Crippen Berger
Scott graduated with a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 2018. He has been with KCB since 2019 and has been involved in a variety of mine-related projects. These projects include design and analysis of earthen embankments, dam breach
assessments, and GISTM compliance. He spent most of his early career doing geotechnical field investigations and has become well versed in material sampling, in-situ testing, instrumentation installation and monitoring, and construction QA/QC. Scott has worked on several international projects including Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Romania, and Spain.
Partnerships:
ENTRO (Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office)
NELSAP (Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Plan)
