Introduction to Risk Analysis and How Inspection & Assessment Informs the Results: Instructor

Dean B. Durkee, PhD, PE, D.GE 
GFT Infrastructure, Inc.
Vice President & Sr. Consultant
Dean is a senior consultant and vice president at GFT with over 35 years of engineering experience as a geotechnical and dam safety engineer, having performed inspections, assessments, and risk analyses of over 700 dams. Dean is the past president of the US Society on Dams (USSD) and honorary vice president of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). As a co-instructor for ASDSO’s Inspection and Assessment of Dams seminar, Dean has provided training to dam owners across the US since 2012. The Inspection and Assessment seminar has been offered in more than 20 US states, as well as Saskatchewan, Canada, and virtually, to over 2,000 attendees. In addition, Dean has provided dam safety and risk analysis training to other state and private dam owners, including Southern California Edison, California Department of Water Resources, Pacific Gas and Electric, Idaho Power, PacifiCorp, Freeport McMoRan, Brazos River Authority, City of Tempe, New York Department of Environmental Quality, Flood Control District of Maricopa County, Resolution Copper, City of Centralia WA, Eugene Water and Electric Board, City of Tampa, Turlock Irrigation District, Colorado Springs Utilities, Grant County PUD, City of Ashland, Oregon, Tennessee Valley Authority, Idaho Falls Power, and Barrick Gold Corp.