The paper summarises the 85th annual meeting of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) in Prague in the Czech Republic in July 2017 and directs the readership to an on-line paper which covers the event in detail.
The 85th annual meeting of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) was held in Prague in July 2017. The event was attended by approximately 20 delegates from the United Kingdom with representatives from consultants, dam owners, contractors and suppliers. In total, more than 1100 delegates from a great majority of the 100 member countries attended. Over the course of the week, the events included
An exhibition from nearly 50 exhibitors.
A symposium with presentations on nine themes, supplemented with poster exhibits.
Meetings and workshops for the ICOLD technical committees.
Young engineer forum (YEF) meeting and social events.
Regional club meetings including a meeting of EurCOLD.
The general assembly.
Technical tours to dam sites.
Tours for accompanying persons and other social events.
An extensive paper covering the event from the perspective of UK participants is now available to BDS members. Due to the length of the paper, this has been made available on the ICE virtual library, which is accessible through the members area of the BDS website. Please refer to Supplementary data for full BDS report.
