The 2016 Geoffrey Binnie Lecture: Dam Engineering – the last 50 years, the next 50 years

Abstract

This paper is an expanded version of the Geoffrey Binnie Lecture given by Dr Peter Mason at the 19th Biennial BDS Conference 2016 held in Lancaster. Dr Mason stepped onto his first construction site as a first-year student in the summer of 1966. His lecture considers some of the major developments in dam engineering seen by the writer over the past 50 years and speculates about what the next 50 years might bring.