A BDS conference has been held once every two years since 1982. The conferences have formed some of the most successful events of BDS with more than 150 participants at recent conferences. They are normally held at a University campus to keep costs low and have generally taken place over two and half days with one afternoon being used for a visits to dams. Conference proceedings has been published by Thomas Telford since 1990 and are available from the ICE Bookshop.

A summary of BDS conferences is given below. Select for more information.

Summary of BDS Conferences

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1st	1975	Newcastle		9th	1996	York
2nd	1982	Keele		10th	1998	Bangor
3rd	1984	Cardiff		11th	2000	Bath
4th	1986	Edinburgh		12th	2002	Dublin
5th	1988	Manchester		13th	2004	Canterbury
6th	1990	Nottingham		14th	2006	Durham
7th	1992	Stirling		15th	2008	Warwick
8th	1994	Exeter

Bibliography of BDS Conference Papers

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The British Dam Society commissioned Paul Tedd to write short summaries of all papers published in the proceedings of the 14 BDS Conferences from 1975 to 2006. Summaries for papers of seven of the Conferences Proceedings have now been completed and are on the BDS website here. They are in the form of an Excel Spreadsheet. They complement the Bibliography of British Dams on the website. Inevitably some errors will have occurred in the preparation of these summaries. Anyone finding errors should contact Paul Tedd at tedd@ukf.net and suitable amendments will be made.

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