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Major figures
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A dam is primarily a collective operation: There is the project manager who is in charge of overall planning, the project engineering manager who finalises the design, calculates the cost and supervises construction, and contractors who, on site, find technical solutions to turn his intentions into reality. There have been some individuals who, whatever their role, have played a decisive part in this art which has a history of many thousands of years.
Hereafter are some of these major figures that we want to present to you...
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Karl Terzaghi (1883-1963)
Karl Terzaghi was born in Prague, at the heart of the Hapsburg Empire, into a military family. He graduated from the Technical University of Graz in 1900.
He began professional life with a firm of consultant engineers in Vienna, where he built up extensive experience on hydroelectric installations in Croatia and Russia. In 1912, after defending his these at the university, he went on a tour of the United States. Once war broke out, he was mobilised as an officer of engineers, taking on (...)
