The “Carbon Neutral” has become the most important goal to achieve in the era of the climate change crisis. K-water has prepared a roadmap for implementing “Carbon Neutral” by 2050. However, only the reduction targets and strategies for scope 1 and 2 have been set, so the management of carbon generated during the construction project and upfront carbon is not being implemented. Therefore, in this study, the criteria and methodology for estimation carbon emissions in the construction sector at domestic and foreign were reviewed, and a methodology for estimation carbon emissions suitable for K-water construction projects was presented, and a case study was conducted. As a result, most of the carbon emissions were more than 90% of the upfront emissions due to material production. Therefore, upfront carbon management is required for carbon management of K-water construction projects, and it is necessary to quantify carbon emissions through GHG construction inventory, etc., and to establish strategies for future reduction technologies.

Damages of large embankment dams by recent strong earthquakes in the world highlight the importance of seismic security of dams. Some of recent dam construction projects for water storage and hydropower are located in highly seismic zone, hence the seismic performance evaluation is an important issue. While state-of-the-art numerical analysis technology is generally utilized in practice for seismic performance evaluation of large dams, physical modeling is also carried out where new construction technology is involved or numerical analysis technology cannot simulate the behavior appropriately. Geotechnical centrifuge modeling is widely adopted in earthquake engineering to simulate the seismic behavior of large earth structures, but sometimes it can’t be applied for large embankment dams due to various limitations. This study proposes a dynamic centrifuge testing method for large embankment dams and evaluated its applicability. Scaling relations for a case which model scale and g-level are different could be derived considering the stress conditions and predominant period of the structure, which is equivalent to previously suggested scaling relations. The scaling principles and testing method could be verified by modified modeling of models using a model at different acceleration levels. Finally, its applicability was examined by centrifuge tests for an embankment dam in Korea.

In this study, to develop a risk assessment tool for geotechnical risk evaluation of local reservoirs. Generally, local reservoirs had some problems which is ageing, poorly compaction, differential settlement, leakage of adjacent conduit, material problem of adjacent spillway etc. Therefore, this study to develop geotechnical failure mode scenario for local reservoirs, and risk assessment tool considering internal erosion process. In addition, to carried out risk evaluation for pilot reservoirs and analyzed failure probability.

Waterside structures such as dams or levees are essential for flood protection, and flood induced failures of such structures can cause serious damages. Real-time safety prediction can prevent most of the damages to inland or the consequential economic damages induced by flood hazards. This study introduces a method of real-time safety prediction by evaluating the correlation between numerical simulation, real-time measurement, and geo-centrifuge data.