Dams & Hydropower Generation

With LaBella’s breadth of specialized engineering services, you can be sure of your design team before you’re sure of your scope.

• Interconnection application
• Automation support
• Dam and spillway rehabilitation and upgrades
• Intake and water conveyance structures
• Hydraulics and hydrology
• Gate design
• Environmental monitoring and permitting
• Electrical distribution, substations, and transmission
• Facilities and buildings engineering
  • Civil and structural
  • Architectural
  • Power and lighting
  • Mechanical, HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection
• Plant control, instrumentation, and monitoring
• Fall protection and safety engineering

Good consultants see things from your side of the table and it’s a practice that LaBella has perfected. As technical project managers that can serve as Owner’s Representative and/or an extension of your staff, we will drive projects so you don’t have to. All you have to do is steer.

• Project and Program management
• Scope and solution development
• Procurement and bidding assistance
• Scheduling and cost analysis
• Facility operation and maintenance
• Owner’s Engineer
• Regulatory compliance and permitting
• Agency coordination (FERC, USACE, USFWS, NYSDEC, SHPO)
• Dam surveillance and monitoring/dam safety program
• Planning and public outreach
• Emergency action plans
• Licensing
• Safety inspections, assessments, and improvements
• Security assessments and improvements

LaBella offers a variety of investigative services to discover and document the unknown. Our deliverables offer balanced assessments backed by our deep regulatory expertise.

• Historical document review
• Dam inspections
• Condition assessments and inspections for water conveyance structures
• Feasibility studies
• Geotechnical investigations and studies
• Materials testing
• Environmental and regulated building materials (RBM) testing
• Wetland Delineation
• Endangered and threatened species studies, habitat assessments, and species surveys
• Site, topographic, and property boundary surveys; GIS; and 3D surface modeling
• Drone survey and visual inspection

• Construction administration services
• Construction engineering
  • Maintenance and traffic control design
  • Erosion and sediment control
  • Cofferdam design
  • Shoring design
• Field construction management
• Environmental testing and oversight
• Commissioning and testing
• Construction vibration, noise, and seismic monitoring