Innovative and sustainable technologies for rehabilitation and maintenance of concrete and embankment dams

There are over 500 large dams in Italy and they perform important functions for the storage of water for irrigation, drinking and industrial purposes. Other benefits have often been added to the original functions which have become increasingly more important also because the artificial basins have modified the physical and economic configuration of the host territories. As in the entire western world, they were mainly built in the last century and require careful surveillance to preserve their use and avoid risks for downstream populations. Technological innovations also borrowed from other sectors allow us to carry out the activity of possibly corrective maintenance of the defects that have emerged in an increasingly timely, effective and surgical manner. Presentations in this conference constitute a significant although not exhaustive overview of the most interesting interventions of recent years.

Session Chairs

Daniele Cazzuffi, CESI SpA, Milan and President of AGI-IGS
Nicola Moraci, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria and Vice President of AGI-IGS

Program

9.30 Registration

10.00 Introduction
Daniele Cazzuffi, CESI SpA, Milano & President AGI-IGS
Nicola Moraci, Università Mediterranea Reggio Calabria & Vice President AGI-IGS
Guido Mazzà, President ITCOLD (Comitato Nazionale Italiano per le Grandi Dighe)
Francesco Fornari, Enel Green Power Global Dam Safety & Vice President ITCOLD

10.15 Dam’s maintenance and rehabilitation: the activities of the ICOLD Technical Committee 
Francesco Fornari, Enel Green Power, Global Dam Safety & Vice President ITCOLD

10.35 Rehabilitation of the bituminous liner of the Monte Cotugno – Sinni dam (Potenza)
Enrico Tita, CEA Building SpA, Calderara di Reno (Bologna)

10.55 Ceresole Reale dam (Torino) rehabilitation: behaviour more than 30 years later
Nicola Brizzo, Iren Energia, Torino & Ezio Baldovin, Geotecna Progetti, Milano

11.15 Use of geomembranes for the rehabilitation of concrete and embankment dams 
Daniele Cazzuffi, CESI SpA, Milano

11.35 Rehabilitation of the upstream face of the Fragabolgia dam (Bergamo)
Franco Maugliani, Lombardi Group

11.55 Management of sediments in artificial basins and definition of the Sustainable Storage Capacity
Manuel Hernandez, Enel Green Power Italia, Milano

12.15 Presentations by Ecomondo exhibitors

12.45 Concluding remarks and closing