Irfan A. Alvi, PE
Alvi Associates, Inc.
President & Chief Engineer
Irfan has 33 years of multidisciplinary engineering experience for dams and other infrastructure, involving many hundreds of projects. His project involving rehabilitation of Prettyboy Dam in Maryland was the ASDSO 2010 National Rehabilitation Project of the Year. He is a member of the ASDSO Dam Failures & Incidents Committee, and he has specialized expertise in the role of human factors in dam failures, incidents, and safety, having published and presented several papers, and presented three ASDSO webinars, on this topic. He served as a member of the independent forensic team which investigated the 2017 spillway incident at Oroville Dam, as well as the team which investigated the 2020 faliure of Edenville Dam in Michigan. For both of these investigations, he was the lead for investigation of human factors.
Human Factors in the Edenville Dam Failure: Instructor
