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Dr Quentin Shaw is a Specialist Consultant for Dams & Hydro at ARQ Consulting Engineers. He has worked uniquely in the field of dams and hydropower during his more than 37 year career. He has worked on well over 150 dams of all types from 5 to 281 m in height and is considered a world expert in RCC materials and dam design.

Through his many years of experience, Dr Shaw has lead various genera of analysis including gravity dams, arch dams, seismic, thermal and geotechnical. His expertise also includes the installation and monitoring of instrumentation on large dams.

Quentin is Vice-Chairperson of ICOLD’s Technical Committee on Concrete Dams, on which he serves as South Africa’s representative. He was Lead Author for ICOLD Bulletin 177 on RCC dams. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering and received the ICOLD Innovation Award in July 2018 in recognition of his work on stress-relaxation creep in Roller Compacted Concrete dams.