Risk Assessment for Levee Projects: On-Demand

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The USACE has been conducting economic risk analyses for evaluating benefit cost ratios for levee projects since the 1960s. With a new focus on life safety, these same analytical techniques are now being used to evaluate priorities for infrastructure investments and required design reliability to achieve various goals, including National Economic Development and life safety risk reduction. This webinar will look at how the USACE is integrating traditional probabilistic levee fragility assessments, as described in ETL 1110-2-556 (Risk-Based Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering for Support of Planning Studies, 1999), with event-tree based system-response / fragility curve development process described in the joint USBR/USACE Best Practices in Dam and Levee Risk Analysis (2015) to evaluate levee system risk and risk reduction alternatives.

Scott Shewbridge, Ph.D., P.E., P.G.

Senior Geotechnical and Risk Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers

Dr. Shewbridge is a registered Civil and Geotechnical Engineer with over 30 years of experience on flood control and dam safety projects, forensic investigations and planning studies. He is a National Specialist on Geotechnical and Risk Engineering for the US Army Corps of Engineers Risk Management Center, providing technical and management support for numerous USACE programs, including developments in geotechnical and risk engineering, seismic engineering, dam safety, levee safety and flood risk management. He has a doctoral degree in Geotechnical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member/lecturer at the Colorado School of Mines, UC Berkeley, California State Universities - Hayward, San Jose and Humboldt, and L’ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (the National School of Bridges and Roads) in Paris, France.