Dams & Reservoirs

Our People are the best dam and reservoir specialists in the industry. Applying our expertise from design-assist and constructability review through roller-compacted concrete (RCC), conventional concrete or specialized earthfill placement, Barnard has earned its place among the top dam contractors in North America. Over four decades, we’ve worked on more than 80 dams, reservoirs, and dikes, from new construction to raising dams or conducting emergency repairs. We know dams so well that we were selected to decommission the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula under the scrutiny of multiple federal agencies, a highly invested public and a heightened international media climate. Our work in dams during the last 20 years has included many projects focused on seismic rehabilitation. Our off-stream, above-ground reservoir construction has required slurry wall construction and geomembrane installation. We’ve worked in all types of terrain through all types of weather, even becoming adept at hurricane response in central New York. This work has been conducted under a wide range of contracts, including design-assist as a preferred tenderer for a public-private partnership’s future dam in a remote region of Queensland, Australia. Our teams stick with projects from “cradle-to-grave,” serving on a bid team and then heading into the field to construct the project they’ve bid. Value engineering is built into our project planning.