Binnie Lecture 2020: 45 years of Dam Engineering, Part 2

The 2020 Binnie lecture delivered to the British Dam Society on 5th October 2020 is being published in two parts.  The first part is a description of three significant projects that were important in my early development and maturing as a dam engineer.  In the light of the reducing numbers of All Reservoirs Panel Engineers I had hoped to include some thoughts on the training of current day dam engineers, but time constraints have restricted my consideration to how they might be assisted with some suggested changes to practice in relation to my second theme.  This second part presents some views on the development of our current reservoir inspection practice and how we might take this forward in a manner which can provide greater consistency, particularly in a world where Inspecting Engineers are unlikely to have had the richness of experience that was available to previous generations.