One of the main highlights during the annual SANCOLD and ICOLD Conferences is the award for the best paper prepared and presented by a Young Person. Since 2013, the recipients have been:
2024
Aldré Nel (Zutari) for his paper titled “Review of the Nacala Dam Safety Plan and Mozambique Dam Safety Regulations”
2023
Reginald Barry (Zutari) for his papers titled:
- “Dam Intake Tower Safety Considerations and Improvements”,
- “Lessons Learnt on the Recent Development of Large Pumped Hydro Storage Schemes in South Africa” and
- “Improving the Operation of a Trash Rack for a Tunnel Intake Structure in Lesotho”
2022
Shared by:
- Caitlin Heidbreder (University of Stellenbosh) for her paper titled “Towards Development of Guidelines for the Hydraulic Design of a Combined Fishway-Canoe Chute at Weirs”, and
- Cherie Starke (DJ Hagen) for her papers titled:
- “Ngodwana Dam Rehabilitation: Is the Downstream Berm Extension Addressing all Failure Modes?”
- “Practical Implementation of Ecological Water Requirements Releases for Small Agricultural Dams”
- “Soil Permeability Testing: What Permeability Are You Measuring?”
2021
Katy O’ Brien (ARQ) for her paper titled “Using the Norsand Constitutive Model as a Tool in Assessing the Static and Dynamic Stability of Tailings Slopes containing contractive Material”
2020
No event.
2019
Adèle Bosman (Stellenbosch University) for her paper titled “Rock Scour Hole Equilibrium Geometry Prediction for Plunging Jets at Dams”
2018
Stephan Dreyer (Stellenbosch University) for his paper titled “Investigation of the Shape of Low-Level Outlets at Hydropower Dams for Local Pressure Flushing of Sediments”
2017
Guy Robertson (AECOM) for his paper titled “Innovative Techniques Used During Upgrading of Kudube Dam Outlet”
2016
ICOLD 2016 – Best Paper: Takahiro Koshiba (Japan) for his paper titled “Development of a Bedload Transport Measuring System for Sediment Bypass Tunnels in Japan”
ICOLD 2016 – Best presentation: Sonel Reynolds (Department of Water and Sanitation) for her paper titled “De-Commissioning of Hammarsdale Dam by Transforming it from a Contaminated Problem Child into a Sustainable Wetland”
2015
Louis Coetzee (SMEC/University of Pretoria) for his paper titled “Evaluation of the Influence of 3-dimensional Upstream Flow and Geometric Parameters when Designing an Ogee Spillway”
2014
Christiaan Marais (AECOM) for his paper titled “Computational Fluid Dynamic Modelling of the Spring Grove Dam’s Spillway”
2013
Mfundo Vezi (University of Cape Town) for his paper titled “Dynamic Modelling of Arch Dams in the Ambient State”